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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
I said the school could use this as an example of being able to show the Christian principle of forgiveness. According to Jesus, whether she "expresses remorse" is neither here nor there when it comes to loving others as you would love yourself. If he'd been so cutthroat it's unlikely he would have such a huge following today. Of course, most people aren't going to be able to REALLY forgive every time they should, but trying is better than nothing.
Nothing's gonna change my mind on that. I've spent years dealing with the "do as I say not as I do" approach to Christianity and it irks me for the people that really do try their hardest to remember what Jesus had to say about how to treat others.
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There's nothing that says they don't "love" her, but Jesus did say "go and sin no more" not "go and sin more if you feel like it." Pretty much every concept of forgiveness whether personal or religious requires the expression of remorse. I would be more inclined to agree with you if she said not "Please let me keep my job" but "I'm sorry I sinned." She might have said the former but we have no indication that she said the latter. And even then, transgressions have consequences. "I'm sorry I broke the lamp" leads to "I forgive you, but you will need to pay from your allowance until you replace it."
Assuming that the school board/officials don't practice what they preach is your own bias. That's fine, just realize that there's no evidence of that either way at this point. We don't know if they looked at her aghast and yelled "SINNER! SHUN THE SINNER!" or said "I'm very sorry but you know that this was against your contract and we have to let you go."