Forgiveness: Muslims Moved as Coptic Christians Do the Unimaginable

Christianity Today ^ | 4/20/17 | Jayson Casper

[SauronOfMordor]

There is a difference between the charity of forgiving the murderer, and the foolishness of allowing the murderer to kill, if you have the means to stop him.

[castlegreyskull]

Real Muslims aren’t moved by anything.

[Biggirl]

It is a call to true spiritual conversion to Christ.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

God see humanity much differently than we do.
I’ll take His opinion over yours all the time.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think you an forgive a killer and still justly act with force and effectivenss to stop him, whether "stop" means put him in jail, put him in the hospital, or put him in the morgue. And "may God have mercy on his soul."

Catholic Christian here: Pope Benedict XVI said mercy does not take the place of justice, abolish justice or substitute for justice. If it does, it is false mercy; in fact, it makes one an enabler of evil.

False "mercy" is cruel to the innocent. It is even cruel to the perp, because it does not confront him with the truth of the repulsive evil of his deed, and his desperate need to repent or suffer everlasting horror.

Instant, automatic forgiveness is no good. It is cheap grace. It is easy-believe-ism. It is the equivalent of waving your hand, when someone else has been bayoneted in the stomach, and saying, "Well, OK, no biggie."

Not that the Amish, the Copts, etc. are wrong for publicly forgiving the savages who killed their loved ones. Far from it. It´s just that they must also confront evil with truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: and STOP that twisted soul from doing evil again. That´s what we owe the evildoer, in the name of mercy.

[Ajnin]

Agreed