RE: What is forgiveness and what is not?
February 27, 2019 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2019 at 10:22 am by tackattack.)
Boru,
That smacks of emotional pleas and is a bit of an aggrandizement in the story. A pragmatic enemy would have simply captured him and used him to get the people to evacuate and claim the place without any more bloodshed and then turn over the body. Appeals to emotionalism are rarely healthy, IMO. Some people, whose egos can be stroked by begging, might prefer that to whatever thing they're doing but I don't think it's particularly beneficial generally. I believe that's more of a partial reconciliation rather than a forgiveness. It's more of a giving into emotion than moving on, IMO.
Since we're quoting books, I don't really ascribe to interpersonal human unconditional forgiveness. I think it's more harmful than good in the majority of cases. The OT and NT have some nice stories about forgiveness. My favorite is Joseph (Genesis 45 if you're interested).
That smacks of emotional pleas and is a bit of an aggrandizement in the story. A pragmatic enemy would have simply captured him and used him to get the people to evacuate and claim the place without any more bloodshed and then turn over the body. Appeals to emotionalism are rarely healthy, IMO. Some people, whose egos can be stroked by begging, might prefer that to whatever thing they're doing but I don't think it's particularly beneficial generally. I believe that's more of a partial reconciliation rather than a forgiveness. It's more of a giving into emotion than moving on, IMO.
Since we're quoting books, I don't really ascribe to interpersonal human unconditional forgiveness. I think it's more harmful than good in the majority of cases. The OT and NT have some nice stories about forgiveness. My favorite is Joseph (Genesis 45 if you're interested).
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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