RE: Loving and forgiving your enemies
December 11, 2015 at 7:57 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 7:58 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(December 11, 2015 at 10:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hello heathens.
So I watched this 20/20 documentary the other night about a little girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered. The little girl's mother, through her faith, made the decision to forgive her daughter's murderer. She starts talking about it at 12:30 on the video below.
"I made the commitment to work towards an attitude of forgiveness. I tried to think positive thoughts for him - let the weather be good for whatever he's doing today, if he's traveling may he not have any car trouble."
She prayed for him and was also against the death penalty for him. Once he was found and imprisoned, he killed himself in his cell, and she reached out to his mom and they laid flowers together on his grave.
Loving and forgiving our enemies is a fundamental Christian teaching, coming from Jesus Himself. So the question to you guys is, do you agree with this teaching? Do you guys think loving/forgiving our enemies, even the people who have done the worst things imaginable to us, is something we should strive to do? Or do you think a person has no moral duty whatsoever to try to forgive people who have done such heinous things?
Why or why not?
Here's the documentary if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB1g4TxdhoE
Let me ask you something, CL. Say a rapist kidnaps you and you know for sure he's going to kill you after he has his way with your body. And say you get a chance to kill him first and that's the only way you're making it out alive out of his basement(or whatever). Do you turn the other cheek or do you stab him until he's dead?
