Jesus taught us that if another person sins, we should rebuke them; if they repent, we should forgive them. He also told us often that if we want our sins to be forgiven, we should forgive others their sins.
Charlie was wrong, wrong, wrong in some of the things and people he believed and supported in the past. He seems to have admitted th…
Jesus taught us that if another person sins, we should rebuke them; if they repent, we should forgive them. He also told us often that if we want our sins to be forgiven, we should forgive others their sins.
Charlie was wrong, wrong, wrong in some of the things and people he believed and supported in the past. He seems to have admitted that he was wrong and repented of it. He is also working very hard to get out the word now about the truth. I think we should forgive him.
As an atheist, I agree. What's crucial about forgiveness for me is that, more than an apology, it's by someone's subsequent actions that I determine the sincerity of their repentance. Charlie has been actively working against the people he used to work with for years now. The Bulwark is on the front lines of this battle. His past life in GOP politics and punditry is water under the bridge for me. Also, if we make the bar for forgiveness so high, we risk that well-intentioned-but-late-to-the-party people may hesitate to come clean for fear of being berated and shunned nonetheless. We need to give people a place to land if we want them to climb over the wall to join our side.
Jesus taught us that if another person sins, we should rebuke them; if they repent, we should forgive them. He also told us often that if we want our sins to be forgiven, we should forgive others their sins.
Charlie was wrong, wrong, wrong in some of the things and people he believed and supported in the past. He seems to have admitted that he was wrong and repented of it. He is also working very hard to get out the word now about the truth. I think we should forgive him.
He and his paper saved my sanity during certain periods.
As an atheist, I agree. What's crucial about forgiveness for me is that, more than an apology, it's by someone's subsequent actions that I determine the sincerity of their repentance. Charlie has been actively working against the people he used to work with for years now. The Bulwark is on the front lines of this battle. His past life in GOP politics and punditry is water under the bridge for me. Also, if we make the bar for forgiveness so high, we risk that well-intentioned-but-late-to-the-party people may hesitate to come clean for fear of being berated and shunned nonetheless. We need to give people a place to land if we want them to climb over the wall to join our side.
He wrote a whole book about it.