{"id":27267,"date":"2024-11-21T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:13:35","slug":"do-you-think-people-should-be-forgiven-even-when-they-have-done-so-much-harm-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/11\/21\/do-you-think-people-should-be-forgiven-even-when-they-have-done-so-much-harm-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think people should be forgiven even when they have done so much harm to others?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2.jpg\" alt=\"Do you think people should be forgiven even when they have done so much harm to others?\" class=\"wp-image-27260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AW112124-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Do you think people should be forgiven even when they have done so much harm to others?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re talking about religious forgiveness, I suggest talking with a pastoral counselor (bit.ly\/bc-pastoral-counseling). It might also be worth exploring restorative or transformative justice, and the kind of truth and reconciliation processes that helped make peace in S. Africa and Rwanda. One helper recommended <em>On Repentance and Repair<\/em> by Danya Ruttenberg (O&#8217;Neill Library Call # BL476.7 .R88 2022) for the point of view of the one who did harm and how to make amends. Another recommended <em>Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace<\/em>, by Miroslav Volf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re talking about religious forgiveness, I suggest talking with a pastoral counselor (bit.ly\/bc-pastoral-counseling). It might also be worth exploring restorative or transformative justice, and the kind of truth and reconciliation processes that helped make peace in S. Africa and Rwanda. One helper recommended On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg (O&#8217;Neill Library Call # &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/11\/21\/do-you-think-people-should-be-forgiven-even-when-they-have-done-so-much-harm-to-others\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you think people should be forgiven even when they have done so much harm to others?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27276,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions\/27276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}