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I've become much better at forgiving and I feel it has helped heal my spirit. There are those that I don't feel deserve forgiveness like pedophiles, but I've found a loophole by just not considering them human. Not to insult by comparing them, but when a dog does something bad like kill or be degenerate, I don't blame the dog because it's an animal, and therefore doesnt need forgiveness, they need training or to be put down (in the case the dog mauled a child or killed another pet or human, only put dogs down for serious agregences.).

But I feel there's some people that hit closer to home, like close friends or family that you came to love and respect, that have done something horrible or wrong to us that could be forgiven, but we could not bring ourselves to do it because it was a serious offence. For example, if your family abandoned you because of the COVID Scam but are trying to re-associate with you acting like nothing happened.

How can you forgive something like that, or how do you handle the internal struggle something like that must cause?

(Note, I am not personally struggling with this particular problem, but I do think it's an important subject that a lot of people struggle with and it needs to be discussed) (Edit: grammar)

I've become much better at forgiving and I feel it has helped heal my spirit. There are those that I don't feel deserve forgiveness like pedophiles, but I've found a loophole by just not considering them human. Not to insult by comparing them, but when a dog does something bad like kill or be degenerate, I don't blame the dog because it's an animal, and therefore doesnt need forgiveness, they need training or to be put down (in the case the dog mauled a child or killed another pet or human, only put dogs down for serious agregences.). But I feel there's some people that hit closer to home, like close friends or family that you came to love and respect, that have done something horrible or wrong to us that could be forgiven, but we could not bring ourselves to do it because it was a serious offence. For example, if your family abandoned you because of the COVID Scam but are trying to re-associate with you acting like nothing happened. How can you forgive something like that, or how do you handle the internal struggle something like that must cause? (Note, I am not personally struggling with this particular problem, but I do think it's an important subject that a lot of people struggle with and it needs to be discussed) (Edit: grammar)

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[–] 2 pts

Simple solution to all this is for people to read their fucking Bible, preferably multiple translations. But that's not gonna fucking happen.

[–] [deleted] 1 pt (edited )

That got me in quite the pickle a long while back. I was about 17 and was a devout Christian, raised that way, and read the Bible with some of my freetime to think my own thoughts and grow my relationship with the Lord. But my mom threatened to kick me out of the house if I didnt go to church. The closer I grew to the Lord, the more I realized, Jesus didnt really want to be worshiped, he wanted us to praise God, and every Christian I ever met seemed to be missing the point, because even before the red pill I didnt like Jesus worship being turned into jew worship.

I didnt like our congregation that much so I didnt want to go to church every sunday when I got more out of the Bible from reading it myself than listening to our own pastor. My Ma and I got into a Bible battle, it was the first real argument I'd ever gotten with her and we were quoting the Bible at each other. But when she would quote a verse, I would open the Bible up to the verse, tell her what it really said, then I would read before and after to show her she cant misquote the Bible at me to enforce her will, and that Jesus would be very disappointed with her for misquoting scripture for power.

I dont think I've ever seen her that angry before, nor had I ever been that angry. When she told me "I'm your mother, you will obey me or be homeless, my house my rules" I told her I wasnt Christian anymore thanks to her and I will gladly be homeless than stay with a worse than fake Christian. I packed everything into my car and told her I would go first thing in the morning and tell gramma that I've been made homeless by my insane mom. She stopped being angry after that and started being nervous.

The next morning she told me she talked to her friend who told her I was right, and she would move out and rent a place from her friend up in the mountains and I could stay home until I was ready to move out. It was wild

[–] 1 pt

Makes sense why your previous comments indicated you were very mistrustful of religion as a whole, then. I'm in a similar boat, but from a far more cultish source, so I understand completely

a far more cultish source

If you want to share what you mean by that i would be interested in lending an ear. We didnt have a "cult" per say on my stepdad's ten acres but he once made a mistake of letting a small Christian church rent out a large house on our property who got really high and mighty and started preeching like they were the only proper church on earth. I was about 16 when this happened and even learned a song called Jehovah Jireh idk how to feel about because I've never heard it in any other church i've been to.

here's a version of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKyyqcomxDc