God may forgive us our transgressions more easily than we forgive each other. Don Imus isn't pulling himself out of the firing line by apologizing and it made me think about the whole forgiveness/forget thing....as we leave Holy week I wondered what makes one person forgivable and another not? Besides looks. It's easy to forgive a good looking person just as it's easy to hold a grudge against an ugly one. But, that's not what I'm talking about here.
There's a saying, forgive but don't forget. I really think God does forget...He is not keeping score. No one sin is more heinous in His eyes than another. Christians (for the most part) believe that if you repent then all is well. Same thing with the way we expect people to apologize and then they go back on he air or Grey's Anatomy.
I think the issue I have will all of that is the sincerity of the apology. Do I really believe that Don Imus is sorry for saying the things he said? In his core does he believe it is wrong to refer to black girls on a college basketball team "nappy headed ho's"? What he did is not a sin, but it is a part of something more insidious...racial bigotry dressed up in a corporate white collar'd shirt.
Forgive. That's tough for a human to do, I'm glad it's God's job and not mine. Me? I'd just rather punch your lights, call you an idiot and then go grab a latte.
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A surprisingly thoughtful and serious post. I guess God has an advantage, because an insincere apology (e.g., "I'm really, really sorry I am in this position!") doesn't really count as one at all...and without looking in Imus' heart, how are we to know what he really believes.