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Phillip
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no, and they cant be rehabilitated either
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No, I don't know how anyone could.
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No! I can't think of anyone less deserving of forgiveness.
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no i can not, i would like to kill them .
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No. But if it was like a 19 year-old having consensual sex with a 14 year-old, and he got unlucky in the courts, then I wouldn't really care.
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People make mistakes, all though you will always remember and the experience will be with you forever. Its important to forgive.
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no way.
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Wow! Answers all over the board, which is I expected. For Christians, we are commanded to forgive. But it gets really hard when it gets to questions like these. Especially if it happens to you or someone you know. But the consequences of not forgiving are huge. Like everything that God told us to do or not to do, there is a good reason for it. Not forgiving will destroy intamacy and will make one cold, distant, and hard hearted. I have experienced it. I had a friend once that said that he would carry his un-forgiveness to the grave. After many years of seeing what it did to him and his family, I finally had no choice but to cut the relationship off. I just couldnt bear watching it destroy him anymore.
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Would you for give the devil? NO! I would never forgive a child molester.
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I am 54 and was caned regularly at school and at home, nuns used to pull my pants down (8 year old) and smack my bare bum, policemen used to clip me around the ear. Do I forgive them? never thught about it until now, but cliche answer is "it never done me any harm".
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I have often wished I could, and prayed for the strength to be able to. But, as of right now, NO, I can't forgive a child molester. I am a Christian, and I know I am supposed to be able to forgive them, but, I don't know that I will EVER be able to do it. I have seen WAY TOO MUCH damage done to the victims of the abuse. I don't know of one person that the molesting didn't have a profound effect on. Maybe one day I will be able to, but not at the present.
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It really depends on the situation for example, dating a younger person having consensual sex . or raping a child. big difference there. Its is like murder ( vehicular because of speeding or murder by strangulation). It would depend on the situation. people do make mistakes and do correct themselves. I would find it hard to but I can forgive pretty much everything,(forget NO but forgive, yea) Especialy if I fely the person had remorse and was sorry for what they did and knew it was wrong.
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I would forgive one,for hate and disdain will hurt me much more than to hold on to such feelings.It has more to do with letting go of these feelings and little to do with the molester.If fact you need not tell them you forgive them,but do it silently in the heart.It is the act of forgiveness that rids one of holding onto these feelings,for they are unhealthy for body ,mind ,and spirit.
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Yes, but that doesn't mean I sign away my intelligence. They never get a second chance to prove people wrong or right. As far as I can make it happen, they will not be getting near another child to be tempted again.
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Never.
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Forgive, yes. Forget, no. Let them work at a school, no. Let them work at a university, yes. Let them buy a house and live in peace, yes. Let them buy a house near a school, no.
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what if it was your parent? and say they did not molest you but your sibling and they hadn't done it for over 18 years but the catch is they deny it still? should you forgive them and if so what about still talking to them and having a relationship with them? and is right for your sibling who was molested and claims to have forgiven them be upset at you for having a relationship with them? This is my situation.
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NO!!!! I was molested as a child, and I will never forgive the person who did it.
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I was growing in "kibuts" (Israely special kind of vilage where children lived together from age of zero till the age of eighteen and visit their parents for 3 hours a day and even less from the age of twelve) in the 1960s & 1970s. Only last seven years I know that one of the girls in my age group were subject to sexual harrasment from her father (that still declained today at the age of ~87) when her mother also knew it. The harrasment was actually full sex relationship from the age of 3 to the age of 14 (then it was too dangareus because she could be pregnant). This 51 years old woman (not married) will never visit the kibuts again. I can remember her behaviour these days when she suddenly started to cry in the common bedrooms and always someone had to wake and help her to relax (I always showed my self sleep hoped that somebody else will wake to relax her), her behavior these days is really make sense that she was abused as she told. I'll never forgive her parents and I'll never say goodbye to them during my visits in the kibuts if I'll meet them excidently.
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After he/she was caned, yes.
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