Forgive, For Your Own Sake
Americans have been hyper-focused on the case of Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner and his wretched, offensive and hateful racist comments. Evidently, Mr. Sterling has harbored these despicable views for a long time and has behaved in a racist manner in the past.
His current comments were egregiously racist, and, thank God, intolerable in current American society.
I agree entirely with NBA Commissioner Silver's actions in, among other things, banning Mr. Sterling from the NBA for life.
However, as a Christian, I have to ask myself, how do I respond to Donald Sterling the man, as opposed to his racist bigotry? Jesus had a lot to say about forgiveness. And the forgiveness Christ called us to extend to others was not dependant on whether the person we were commanded to forgive was repentant or apologetic.
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