Atheism and forgiveness

[rexbeccarox]

I'm the first to admit that I readily cut people out of my life, but only for major transgressions. Like, when my best friend of eighteen years, aware of my suicidal tendencies and during a particularly awful bout, brought me a kitchen knife and told me she was praying that I'd kill myself. Or, the friend who had owed me $400 for about a year and told a mutual friend she had no plans to pay me back because she figured I had forgotten about it. Both of those examples show a severe lack of respect, so I have no need to have those people around anymore.

I have forgiven both of those people, but that doesn't mean I have to let them back in.