A question about forgiveness in christianity. [View All]

[coloradodem2005]

It seems that when it comes to forgiveness, that some say that one needs to simply forgive but it never addresses that the person who committed the wrong should ask for forgiveness from the person that they wronged.

THere are merits to forgiving. Because it will help you to move on with life, and is a way to jettison emotional baggage. And it would make sense even if half of what was written in the Bible was true. Forgiveness can be a release. On the flip side, as was addressed in a response to my earlier post people talked about corruption and how it does not get addressed because many people have this attitude that these people will get it later on.

To tie this into something more relevant to current events. Should we forgive George W. Bush for screwing up the economy? Should we forgive him for Iraq? What if he apologized, should we forgive him then? Should we forgive John Ashcroft for the Patriot Act? Should we forgive Dick Cheney for using the 2002 midterm elections as validation to do whatever he wants with tax cuts? Ever? After its over?