Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Praying for the dead is in the Bible, of course it is in Maccabees II so it’s a Catholic thing I guess.
And the Lord’s prayer: Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Forgiving others for their sins is a hard thing to do, but we must do it.
“Forgiving others for their sins is a hard thing to do, but we must do it.”
Possibly the hardest command for Christians to accomplish. Maybe that is why Christ emphasized it so much, a true test of faith.
Even Catholics don’t endorse prayer for those who died with no hope of salvation, like this guy who died while trying to commit another murder.
[Praying for the dead is in the Bible, of course it is in Maccabees II so it’s a Catholic thing I guess.]
Maccabees II is also in the Anglican/Episcopal Bible.
Terrorist #1 was an evil, evil man. But praying for the souls of people like him is what Christians do, and it’s what makes us different than the religions that went before.
The Episcs are utterly reprobate. But that’s because they have homosexual bishops, they ignore both Scripture and Tradition, they are “interfaith” and they practice moral equivalency. Not because they pray for dead terrorists.