Righteousness And Forgiveness

There are many people who claim to have the virtue of righteousness; but many of them do not have the virtue of compassion and forgiveness.

I have known people who tortured their children because of what they did when they were 3. I have known people who claimed that anyone who broke a rule – official or unofficial, right or wrong – was a sociopath or a narcissist and could never be good. These people are in greater violation of righteousness than anyone that they attack. They have no compassion and they have no forgiveness. What they have is not righteousness. It is cruelty and meanness.

And this is a much greater sin than anything of which they accuse anyone else.

It is time that more people confront such bullying behavior and remind such people to remove the beam from their eye before removing a splinter from their brothers. And I hope that people who stand to be on the receiving end of such behavior have the courage to do just that.