Checking Twitter just now, I noticed #mydadgetsnocallbecause is trending. Lots of hurt, bitter people griping about their fathers’ failures—so many that it’s a trending topic. On Father’s Day and everything. And in a way this is just me echoing what several people already expressed on Twitter—that this is “sad,” “terrible,” “low,” and “ignorant.” But I also want to provide a reason why this shouldn’t be trending, at least among Christians. A reason why even non-Christians, who aren’t bound by the same reaso
I already wrote a post, titled “So why not let’s forgive everyone?” detailing most of my argument, and that can be read here . I’ll quote myself in excerpt:
…we are told to forgive as we’ve been forgiven, or else God will do to us as the unforgiving servant of Matthew 18 . The man in the parable was forgiven an impossible debt; we likewise, who have been forgiven much, are called to forgive much in return. We’ve been forgiven everything, so we have no excuse for ungratefulness. We’ve been forgiven everything , so why not let’s forgive everyone, everywhere, everything?