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I’ve been watching the family members of his victims on YouTube today make their various speeches to him and all I’ve witnessed to my amazement is pure hatred and again viciousness, with family members speaking of their glee and hopes that he suffer mightily in prison or be killed there or how they want to kill him themselves and how he should be afraid of them blah, blah, blah, etc, etc.
I guess it’s just jarring to me because I’m so used to seeing the influence of the Christian religion on people during these types of trials as I grew up and would watch bits and pieces of them occasionally.
Sure there’d at times be victims families just as vicious and hateful as in the Cruz case but mostly what I’d see as a youngster were victims families telling their victimizer/the accused etc, that though they are angry with the person now they know in time God will help them forgive the person and that they hope the person finds God and redemption in prison or another variation might go that they say they love the accuser as a fellow brother in Christ but don’t accept what they did and want the killer to reflect upon their actions while in prison and find sorrow, remorse and then forgiveness from God.
Many times this kind of compassion and showing of love when love is the last thing an apparently vicious killer expects moves them to break down into heavy sobs and tears and in the cases where said killer is not actually a psychopath or sociopath simply play acting to fool people with the tears the love shown probably does bring about guilt, sorrow and self reflection in the killer.
Whereas in Cruz’s case if I were him experiencing all of their hate, it’d be damn hard not to look at these people in total disgust and feel completely justified in what I had done.
So I guess I’m just saying as wacky as the Christian religion can sometimes or oftentimes be, there’s at least some deep wisdom in certain aspects or teachings of it which is probably in part what helps explain its longevity.
Though yeah seeing these families behavior towards Cruz it makes me wonder just how badly Christianity’s hold has weakened over western civilization in a pure curiosity sense due to incidents like this?
I guess it’s just jarring to me because I’m so used to seeing the influence of the Christian religion on people during these types of trials as I grew up and would watch bits and pieces of them occasionally.
Sure there’d at times be victims families just as vicious and hateful as in the Cruz case but mostly what I’d see as a youngster were victims families telling their victimizer/the accused etc, that though they are angry with the person now they know in time God will help them forgive the person and that they hope the person finds God and redemption in prison or another variation might go that they say they love the accuser as a fellow brother in Christ but don’t accept what they did and want the killer to reflect upon their actions while in prison and find sorrow, remorse and then forgiveness from God.
Many times this kind of compassion and showing of love when love is the last thing an apparently vicious killer expects moves them to break down into heavy sobs and tears and in the cases where said killer is not actually a psychopath or sociopath simply play acting to fool people with the tears the love shown probably does bring about guilt, sorrow and self reflection in the killer.
Whereas in Cruz’s case if I were him experiencing all of their hate, it’d be damn hard not to look at these people in total disgust and feel completely justified in what I had done.
So I guess I’m just saying as wacky as the Christian religion can sometimes or oftentimes be, there’s at least some deep wisdom in certain aspects or teachings of it which is probably in part what helps explain its longevity.
Though yeah seeing these families behavior towards Cruz it makes me wonder just how badly Christianity’s hold has weakened over western civilization in a pure curiosity sense due to incidents like this?