I find it nauseating when self-appointed holier-than-thou types urge me to "forgive" a murderous nutter like this guy, especially when there has been no repentance. He did no harm to me personally. If his victims' families want to forgive him, good for them and God bless them. But for me or anyone unaffected by his crazy outburst, it is arrogant and presumptuous to call for forgiveness for such an animal.
In some respects it is even like the competitive altruism of hippie backpackers parachuting into Third World hell holes to see who can hold hands with the most dying babies. The focus falls on the loud third-party dispenser of pious forgiveness, rather than on the victims of the perpetrator.
Also, there are are a lot of soft headed leftists who think "forgiveness" means murderers and other criminals shouldn't have to pay the price for their misdeeds. They are mistaking God's law for man's.
If a man murdered my child and got sent to death row, and did not ask me for forgiveness, I would watch him go to his execution with a hardened heart. If he begged me for forgiveness, I would try hard to find that spark of Christian love that would allow me to do so, and remove the hatred from my heart. But even then, I would not ask the authorities to let him go free. Forgiveness has meaning only in the realm of the spirit, not under the laws of Man.
-ccm
"I find it nauseating when self-appointed holier-than-thou types urge me to "forgive" a murderous nutter like this guy, especially when there has been no repentance. He did no harm to me personally. If his victims' families want to forgive him, good for them and God bless them. But for me or anyone unaffected by his crazy outburst, it is arrogant and presumptuous to call for forgiveness for such an animal."
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