Split Personalities from Abuse

[Sacred Fool]

Which seems like central teaching of Jesus - to love thy neighbor.. I just have a hard time with the idea of forgiving people that harm children - the most vulnerable of all of us. Maybe this will hold me back from spiritual growth but I can't see myself every showing love to such a person who does these things to infants and young kids. To me it is demonic (not the christian idea of the word, but the embodiment of evil) as you are destroying all the possibilities of that Childs life with the weight they'll be forced to carry.

This stuff is deeply disturbing beyond description, I agree.  In some ways, withholding forgiveness feels like the more compassionate choice in the sense that it seems like more love then is available to flow to the victim that way.

On the other hand, if it's true that we are all One, that you are a part of me and my scope of consciousness just as I am a part of yours, then by denying love and compassion to those who have committed the most heinous of acts, are you then denying a part of your own self your own love and compassion?  That's the paradox.

At some point down the road, releasing love to all and withholding from none may become more important than other ways we have developed of deciding who merits love and who does not.