Posted on 02/28/2009 4:15:55 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Unlike their random VICTIMS. *Rolleyes*
If inmates are paying for it themselves and volunteering themselves, I have nothing to say about it. Let them. It seems a positive thing.
I’m still deciding on this. Having been a crime victim, and having to raise someone else’s kids while their ‘mother’ was out racking up 6 DUIs, and numerous stints in rehab and prison, I’m a little jaded. ;)
Jesus forgave men ...who found guilty by other standards...while on the Cross.
God Bless the caregivers, volunteers, and yes the inmates that they may find Jesus...while they hang on that cross too.
Hopefully some of the other inmates will find love, mercy and compassion in comforting the dying.
Diana..so you don’t believe in mercy in any circustance? No forgiveness, not even in death?
Well, maybe some of them will develop more respect for life in caring for the dying.
Where was the mercy for their victims? They weren’t drugged into a stupor to dwindle away pain-free in their last days or moments. Life was TAKEN from them, forcefully and mercilessly. And if they weren’t killed, as in the result of being raped or maimed and still left alive...that life is ruined, too.
It’s not up to me to judge in the end. That’s God’s job. However, I wish VICTIMS would get a fair shake. They don’t. They get a funeral and maybe a headstone, and if they were greatly loved, a memory or two in those they left behind.
Those of you that can dole out the mercy must not have ever had anything taken from you in a violent manner, or else you’re much bigger people than I am, which could be the case.
There is a time to forgive.
Why doesn’t anyone here give a rip about the victims of crime? And who cares if I forgive...ultimately, it doesn’t mean a thing.
What happened to my family isn’t eating me alive; this prisoner stuff always annoys me to no end when you think about the horrific crimes they’ve committed against others in their lives. Why aren’t these dogs put down in the first place?
Take a life, give your life in turn.
Will ‘forgiving’ prisoners being punished by society for their crimes make the outcome any different? Will it turn back the clock for the victims and their families?
I do care, but at some point, it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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One morning my husband got up and left to go to work. I did not get up with him as I had worked very late the night before.
As I laid dozing in our bed a man jimmied the window to our apartment open, cut the phone line, found a knife and came into the bedroom...
That morning I became a victim of a violent crime. The neighbors in the other apartments had left for work too and I had to find my way to the payphone to call for help.
Today if I heard the man who had serial raped several dozen women & girls was dying in prison...I would wish him peace and the ability to believe in things bigger than himself. Would I want him released? NO. But I can find room for his soul, if he can find room for Jesus.
Tough but true, EMH, God bless and continually heal you.
Everybody should be allowed to die with minimum amount of dignity regardless they deserve it or not
That's a good thing.
I’m going to let this one digest until morning. I’m not changing my opinion, but those of you that feel compelled to help Evil find it’s way off to Heaven in a kindly manner when no kindness was shown to the victims can go on placating yourselves. ;)
If ALL is ultimately forgiven, why even bother to punish anyone in the first place?
It is truly a delight to see one so utterly without sin that there is nothing for which she has to seek forgiveness, from Man or from God, and being freed of the need to seek for herself will deny it to all others.
What’s your secret?
Our family was violently ripped apart by false accusations over 23 years ago. Our only child was kidnapped by state workers and held prisoner for 7 years. We suffered immeasurable agony not knowing her condition or her whereabouts. We paid a heavy price for standing up with the Truth. We never compromised with the darkness. Yet the shame of it all has kept my blessed husband silent. Your posting really injured his soul. Attitudes like yours still fill us with fear and quiet outrage. It is really quite a challenge to reach forgiveness in our hearts toward ignorant and hateful people like you.
However, following the example of Christ Jesus, my Lord, my friend, I choose to forgive you and let Him be your judge. I challenge you to love the prisoners as He has loved us all. Take your grief and anger to Him and let Him transform it into Peace.
In His love,
LibreOuMort
Ping
Diana, you are a voice of sanity here. Thank you.
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