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Brian Holdsworth:
@6:49 "We also need to ask if this expectations of descendants apologizing and making reparations for the sins of ancestors is a legitimate and a just expectation. If it makes sense that I as a Catholic share in the guilt of Catholics who have come before me and committed crimes and abuses and injustices, then I need to ask where does that end. Where does that cycle of accusation and contrition and reparation end. When is that satisfied? If that does not separate me from that guilt, then likewise that would not separate my children or my grandchildren and so on either because they would all share in that lineage. By that concept, every successive generation would be expected to show remorse for sins of people for whom the only thing they have in common is that shared expression of the common creed (love God and love your neighbor as yourself). That can't possibly lead to healing and reconciliation all it will lead to is an endless cycle of accusation and either contrition or resentment on the part of the accused.
Who among us has ancestors that have committed no sins such that we can start throwing stones around without smashing up our own glass houses?... This perverse notion of justice, if it were applied to everyone, would be unappeasable. We would be caught in a never-ending feedback loop of regret and appeasement for our ancestors.
@6:49 "We also need to ask if this expectations of descendants apologizing and making reparations for the sins of ancestors is a legitimate and a just expectation. If it makes sense that I as a Catholic share in the guilt of Catholics who have come before me and committed crimes and abuses and injustices, then I need to ask where does that end. Where does that cycle of accusation and contrition and reparation end. When is that satisfied? If that does not separate me from that guilt, then likewise that would not separate my children or my grandchildren and so on either because they would all share in that lineage. By that concept, every successive generation would be expected to show remorse for sins of people for whom the only thing they have in common is that shared expression of the common creed (love God and love your neighbor as yourself). That can't possibly lead to healing and reconciliation all it will lead to is an endless cycle of accusation and either contrition or resentment on the part of the accused.
Who among us has ancestors that have committed no sins such that we can start throwing stones around without smashing up our own glass houses?... This perverse notion of justice, if it were applied to everyone, would be unappeasable. We would be caught in a never-ending feedback loop of regret and appeasement for our ancestors.
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