The capacity for forgiveness.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


You brought it up. If you can't see the correlation, that's your problem.

Your pissing in the thread about the better angels of human nature is similar to when someone comes into a thread memorializing veterans and taking a krap in it by turning into a political debate on the wars the veterans fought in.

[SlowwHand]

Re: The capacity for forgiveness.

Originally posted by MrFun
I just watched a documentary about Gettysburg this evening. It was a moving, thought-provoking presentation about not only the battle itself and its tremendous cost in casualties, but also how Lincoln wanted to ensure that the sacrifices would be properly memorialized.

In that spirit, his speech included the principle that the United States needed to endure as a nation based on the idea that ALL men are created equal.

But there was another part of this documentary that I remember. A free black woman happened to have been traveling through what was the battlefield of Gettysburg. She came across wounded soldiers. Here, she displayed a tremendous capacity for forgiveness; she provided comfort, water, and food to not only wounded Union soldiers, but also those who wore the gray uniform of the Confederacy. Upon seeing this part of the documentary, I was touched by this capacity for forgiveness and compassion.

I can clearly see your point.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by SpencerH


Compassion, yes. Forgiveness, for what? Fighting for their country and way of life (no matter how misguided)? "Holier than thou" yankees need to remember that none of the antislavery northern states wanted the freed slaves to move there and pollute their racial purity.

You're off my Ignore list now - figured maybe you have cooled off now and came to your senses.

The free black woman basically forgave the Confederate soldiers for being associated with the pro-slavery cause of the Confederacy.

Where did I claim that there was no racism in the North??

[MrFun]

Re: Re: The capacity for forgiveness.

Originally posted by SlowwHand



I can clearly see your point.

Nah, I doubt you have.

[SlowwHand]

Then you doubt correctly.