And here’s an odd thing — a life that is covered with a flood of kindness received as a result of a campaign of kindness begins to worry less about the fate of the cruel and trust God more to get it right. This isn’t like our modern “liberals” who are very snappish and illiberal.
I know you’re Jewish, and not (or not yet) Christian, and I don’t know all the ins and outs here of the Torah tradition that is kept by moderns. It would utterly daunt me to try to master it all. I’m Christian. However the idea of going to hell isn’t one that Christians first came up with. It’s spoken of in the book of Daniel as one possible fate of those raised from the dead. Death isn’t the excuse-all card, it will turn out.
God considers much, much grief in a life preferable to ending up in hell. At the worst, grief is the goad that pushes a soul towards God when otherwise the soul might just go on its merry way of itself in a fatal ignorance.
What of the man who was the abuser of your childhood? He might or might not be in a position to make direct amends to you, but he can certainly offer himself to God to be a force against evil in the world.
All of our stories are mixed. We’ve all done evil things, some of which never got past the scene, some of which have had great knock-on effects. And what determines that? A thing which we don’t have control over, called circumstance.
Don’t let your suffering before the cruel be the end of your story. Let it be a reason for erecting a monument to kindness.
You sure do assume a lot about me.
While the subject gets me passionate about it, this is not any sort of theme in my life nor do I live as a victim. 99% of my life, this subject doesn’t come up.
Cracking down on pedophiles and child sex slavery is essential, and Gd will have a way for us to do so while not risking innocents being falsely convicted.
It’s a bit presumptuous of you to assume things about my life like you have, from some higher position you seem to have climbed to.