🧡1. Call out sexual abuse & unhealthy accountability. When institutions use forgive and forget to cover abuse, they’re not protecting faith they’re protecting harm It turns the teachings of Jesus Christ into a shield for harm www.propublica.org/article/sexu...

Young Girls Were Sexually Abus...
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.

In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were β€œwashed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.

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2. replacing truth & protection with silence and impunity Forgiveness is personal. Accountability is necessary. Distortion of forgiveness role doesn’t whisper..it roars loud enough to make injustice sound like righteousness. In Aramaic, the word often translated as β€œrighteousness” is zaddiqutha
3. It carries a meaning that’s deeper than moral correctness, it points to: rightness in relationship alignment with what sustains life. It's justice lived, NOT declared !!! It’s less about being β€œright” & more about being in right relationship with others, with truth, with the sacred. #proudblue
4. When righteousness is distorted, it’s not bad behavior, it’s breaking relationship, which is sacred, while still claiming alignment. When righteousness is distorted, it becomes performance of being right & abandoning what it was meant to protect. Right relationship, justice, and life. #pinks