{"id":1819,"date":"2022-10-18T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/forgiveness-and-self-justification\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:17:05","slug":"forgiveness-and-self-justification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/forgiveness-and-self-justification\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness and Self-Justification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">One feels <em>justified<\/em> in not forgiving. &quot;Why should I forgive the bastard? He <em>wronged<\/em> me, and not just once!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&quot;Don&#39;t <em>you<\/em> need forgiveness? You must forgive because you yourself need to be forgiven for what&#0160; you have done to others!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&quot;There is a part of me that can appreciate your fine Sunday School sentiment.&#0160; But to survive in this ugly and brutal world I had to become tough and unfeeling; I had to learn how to be unjust and how to wrong people. And of course I had to practice on the weak and vulnerable if I was to make any progress and not be killed right away.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One feels justified in not forgiving. &quot;Why should I forgive the bastard? He wronged me, and not just once!&quot; &quot;Don&#39;t you need forgiveness? You must forgive because you yourself need to be forgiven for what&#0160; you have done to others!&quot; &quot;There is a part of me that can appreciate your fine Sunday School sentiment.&#0160; But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/forgiveness-and-self-justification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forgiveness and Self-Justification&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}