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A Hard Example of Forgiveness
Remember the Jim Jones "Drink the Kool-Aid" masacre?
Here's an example of someone asking for forgiveness. Via WorldNetDaily, we read this in the Press Democrat:
After a near silence of almost 30 years, a former top aide to cult leader Jim Jones has asked for forgiveness for his role in events that led to the deaths of more than 900 people in a mass murder-suicide.
Tim Stoen, Jones' former chief legal adviser and now a Humboldt County deputy district attorney, sought redemption in the form of a handwritten apology to the first reporter who publicly exposed bizarre behavior at the Peoples Temple's Mendocino County headquarters in the early 1970s.
"You were right about the Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I was totally wrong," he wrote.
Stoen concluded his Feb. 11 letter by asking former San Francisco Examiner religion reporter Les Kinsolving to "forgive me."
The guy lost his 5-year-old in the killings. Now, he asks forgiveness from the reporter who first exposed the Jiom Jones cult. That man's response?
Stoen concluded by writing, "I also pray you can forgive me."
Kinsolving said he has.
"Heavens, I'm a Christian. We have no choice but to forgive," he said.
True. Hard, but true.
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