Quote: Bulls Boy 2011 "...
I just don't understand how you all could simple forgive a person for beheading someone in broad daylight in front of women and children?'"
How odd, you should ask that when Jesus said it's not easy but you should forgive your enemies.
Or, like many so-called Christians, do you prefer the pick-and-mix-approach which so often ignores what the guy said?
Not being a Christian myself, I judge according to my conscience, tempered by what reality and pragmatism I feel is appropriate.
What I find is that many of the least forgiving, least understanding and least helpful in our society are amongst those who profess to be Christians ... I often wonder, given that they are happier selectively believing bits of the old testament and virtually ignoring the message and philosophy of the new testament, why they don't go the whole hog and convert to Judaism.
Hog and Judaism in the same sentence there, let's just treat it as a pun, no offence meant.