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Please no attacks against anyone’s views, beliefs, etc.
A partial quote from the interview that I believe shows where we are as a society: And so it’s easy for a professional-managerial class person to say that a 19-year-old who participated in a triple homicide related to a cocaine deal that went off the rails should be forgiven, because their major contact with that kind of individual or that kind of crime is watching Law and Order episodes. But that same person absolutely can’t forgive someone who pissed them off on Twitter, because for them being interpersonally offended on Twitter is one of the major conflicts of their life.
A partial quote from the interview that I believe shows where we are as a society: And so it’s easy for a professional-managerial class person to say that a 19-year-old who participated in a triple homicide related to a cocaine deal that went off the rails should be forgiven, because their major contact with that kind of individual or that kind of crime is watching Law and Order episodes. But that same person absolutely can’t forgive someone who pissed them off on Twitter, because for them being interpersonally offended on Twitter is one of the major conflicts of their life.
Why is it so hard to forgive?
Posted from vox.com
Forgiveness
Christianity
Justice
Philosophy
Internet
Posted 3 y ago
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Forgiveness is born of God because it’s unnatural to the human nature to let offense go. Sometimes, a person is not technically a believer in God, still, for God’s own reasons, He worked in that person’s heart to manifest the ability to forgive (which often leads to a later awareness of God.)
In my 40+ yrs of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, I’ve spent over 30 yrs of that outside church walls, and have discovered God’s astounding design to work in a wide range of ways, often toward seemingly unworthy subjects.
In my 40+ yrs of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, I’ve spent over 30 yrs of that outside church walls, and have discovered God’s astounding design to work in a wide range of ways, often toward seemingly unworthy subjects.
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I agree with you. I know others would argue otherwise. They are welcome as long as they are respectful.
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SFC (Join to see) I have really come to see how God orchestrates meetings and salvation with many people in unconventional ways. I especially saw this when I smuggled Bibles in comm China. All Believers need to rest in His great control of all matters and outcomes.
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I think the internet makes our bad tendencies worse...
from the interview:
Elizabeth Bruenig
I definitely think that the Internet is very good at inflaming our worst tendencies. And one of those is the tendency to discipline and punish and prosecute, not for safety, not for the preservation of community, but just for fun. So there’s someone who’s already been totally raked for a bad tweet or something and has already absolutely taken it on the chin, and then we see the shitty tweet again a year later and we’re like, “Huh, okay, let’s go back in on this!” That happens all the time, and it’s a function of the internet’s capacity for preservation and the incentives for people to resurrect others’ failings for their own purposes.
from the interview:
Elizabeth Bruenig
I definitely think that the Internet is very good at inflaming our worst tendencies. And one of those is the tendency to discipline and punish and prosecute, not for safety, not for the preservation of community, but just for fun. So there’s someone who’s already been totally raked for a bad tweet or something and has already absolutely taken it on the chin, and then we see the shitty tweet again a year later and we’re like, “Huh, okay, let’s go back in on this!” That happens all the time, and it’s a function of the internet’s capacity for preservation and the incentives for people to resurrect others’ failings for their own purposes.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown - It seems everyone tries to beat others to the punch. I practice the overnight response when I can, and I have never been sorry for it.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown SFC (Join to see) As much as the internet has been beneficial, it has probably been twice as destructive. An easy way to target and strike at people from the comfort of distance.
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Sgt (Join to see) - I agree. This is what social media has brought us, sometimes even here on RP.
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SFC (Join to see) I do agree with the points raised in the article regarding social media. Technology does provide a means of (seemingly) immediate vengeance: "Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!" (Anton Szandor Lavey). One thing I found missing from the article is any attempt to acknowledge a necessary currency in the economy of forgiveness: remorse and repentance. Want forgiveness? Acknowledge the wrong and exert efforts to mend that wrong where possible. Forgiveness is hard enough on its own; it becomes even more difficult when someone is ignorant (or even appears gleeful) over the wrong. Sgt (Join to see) Lt Col Charlie Brown
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You brought up a great point sir. I felt something was missing from the article and you put your finger on it. Forgiveness is only half of the equation, the other half is remorse and repentance as you say. Thank you for the comments.
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