Mercy, justice & forgiveness | Jeanne Bishop | TEDxWinnetkaWomen
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- 1 powerful point of view regarding social justice and engagement from a woman who is the sister of Nancy Bishop Langert, who was shot to death at age 25 along with her husband and their unborn child.
Jeanne Bishop is the sister of Nancy Bishop Langert, who was shot to death at age 25 along with her husband and their unborn child. Since the murders of her family members, Jeanne Bishop has been a prominent advocate for gun violence prevention, abolition of the death penalty, exoneration of the innocent and the role of faith in the debate over executions. On gun violence prevention, Ms. Bishop volunteers with the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, lobbying in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures for sensible gun safety laws. Her lobbying efforts helped convince Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to sign a death penalty abolition bill into law in 2011. Jeanne also has a book, "Change of Heart," www.jeannebisho... .
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There is a lot about the offender in our family's case that Jeanne, my sister, has not shared here. He is exceptional in his on-going dangerousness.
A person's moral worth can be measured by how they treat the lowest members of society. Would they visit and offer council to a prisoner? Would they feed the homeless? Would they treat a member of the underclass with dignity and eliminate the idea of an underclass?
I'd never forgive a sociopath and that's what he is. He's using her to get himself out like he used her family for a thrill the night he killed them and afterwards when he collected the news articles that showed he was famous and then put on a show for the cameras during the trial. All for a thrill and attention for himself. It's not worth gambling on him not doing it again while using other people's loved ones as the chips.
Surrender no right. And hold people in trusted positions accountable for releasing dangerous people. I see mental illness not faith.
great message!
That the power of love only by loving our neighbour and understand the love of God for ourselves that we can love others and forgive them....at the end we are all sinners in God's eyes and if we refuse to forgive we are saying to God that we are better than these people and God will not forgive us
I'm sorry but if I end up seeing the killer of a loved one I would make them suffer the way my loved one suffer.
I came here thinking that I could let it out and talk about mercy I want to give even though I've never gotten a sorry or ounce of remorse but I'm sorry what that man did was unforgivable. The fact that he was bragging and had kept some of their property. I don't know it makes me feel like it's pointless to do anything in this world when people like that exist. I just couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams that he was sorry. His crime was so elaborate. I would effing kill myself if that happened to my family. I'm sorry I can't think that he is worthy of forgiveness. I don't hate him I don't want him dead. But I strongly despise him. Idk it feels wrong
But nonetheless mt situation isn't as awful and if she can find forgiveness then I certainly can too.
You are right that the specific facts about this man, my sister's murderer, are uniquely heinous. He is not the normal "screw up kid" that just makes a horrific mistake and later grows up to be safe for release.
So beautiful. And love in the heart is a much greater pleasure than hate and malice there. If just for our own selves in selfishness of wishing ourselves love, lovingkindness is an experience to desire for its own sake and for our own lives and our own hearts. I heard this in another Ted Talk: "Forgiveness is the greatest love story ever told." In my personal life, it is also the greatest experience there is.
Totally get it, each and every one of us can only be accountable for what we do, I think forgiveness is truly divine. Hatred is such a destructive condition, and I think my greatest accountability is to the divine, and those that execute others imo are as bad as the original perpetrator, it strikes me more as a form of revenge as opposed to justice. Strikes me as disingenuous that these ill named 'bible belt' states have the highest execution rates in America. I am certain the 6th commandment states that 'thou shalt not kill' or do the subjective choose to obey the commandments subjectively. Ultimately there are none without sin, which is why Christ, (if one believes in the bibles teachings) died so that we may all be forgiven our sins, lest we repent, and if this murderer does not truly repent then ultimately divinity, should judge him. I am not saying that all murderers should be let loose to kill again and again, but there are many who are truly remorseful for their acts, and as I said, not one is perfect, so in concluding I think Jeanne is a great example of compassion, and I believe that if many had been shown a little compassion prior to their acts, their life outcomes may have been very different, but not to say that applies to all, as some are committed to destruction.
I wish I knew her. I feel like we'd have good talks
She's a very nice lady