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To: tired&retired
I guess you are not Christian and still follow the old law.

Nope. But I know I could not forgive the Holocaust no matter if that is what Jesus would do or wants me to do. I don't think most people/Christians would either, regardless of what they may say.

It was actually a Ghandi quote long before the movie.

It is still (IMO) a lame line that seems to enjoy its sense of fake profundity. It would be great if everybody forgave each other all the time, and would be even better if people didn't kill each other and need forgiveness. However, in this fallen world, there are evil people who will not be stopped by forgiveness. Was it forgiveness when they hung the Nazi war criminals after the Nuremburg trials? Should they not have hung them?

39 posted on 04/15/2019 7:54:03 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
In 1914 in the Canadian House of Parliament a member named Mr. Graham argued against the death penalty. He mentioned the well-known verse of Exodus and then employed it in a trope about the members of the Parliament:

Mr. GRAHAM: We can argue all we like, but if capital punishment is being inflicted on some man, we are inclined to say: ‘It serves him right.’ That is not the spirit, I believe, in which legislation is enacted. If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

42 posted on 04/15/2019 7:58:20 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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