Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.