It is not my job to forgive them. Jesus will decide their afterlife. I would just try to end the current one, with prejudice.
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Atcually, it is your job to forgive them. It is however not the law’s job to forgive them. We have laws in this country and the laws job is not to forgive anybody but it is to exact justice for all.
Even The Savior while on the earth forgave sinners but at the same time recognized that there were laws and that they were not to be ignored. The Savior forgives people that seek forgivness after repentance, the law is supposed to be blind to intent only the action counts. The law makes allowence for intent only in the law that was broken, that is why we have 1st degree, 2nd and 4th degree crimes, sometimes there are even more degrees than those. There are specified punishment for crimes Juries and judges have some latitude because the law gives room in sentencing but only to a point.
These feral animals didn’t do anything to me personally so I have nothing to forgive them of. If it was my wife I have my doubts that I could have a forgiving nature towards them until the system put them to death as they deserve. While I might not forgive them in my heart I don’t think I would try to kill them as long as they were in custody. If they broke out I might want to join the manhunt and hope I was the one that found them.
There is a poster on this site that had a violent crime happen to his wife. I think it was a foster son who killed the wife. Can’t remember. It destroyed him.
You are better than me. I cannot forgive transgressions that are openly a coordinated effort on behalf of satanists. I will forgive the local thief and adulterer but I have become hardened to crimes of mass murder.