Forgiveness makes friends and /or keeps them.

Mmmm. A little AlkaSeltzer for the mind. Thanks, I needed that.

Uh..here we go again...
this time the challenge is for child molestors

Not bumped by popular demand but because it is necessary..

Edited by Amelia to remove crude and rude comment

Yes Nico, your point is valid...
so is my post..then there is the chicken and the egg principle...

I have run into people who through unforgiving hatred and unforgiveness have caused themselves undue anxiety/stress and have broken down their vital force and upset their chemical balance and ended up with biochemical disorders.

I would be inclined to believe they were biochemically predisposed at the outset with an inability to process those things the way a normal person might, and so their seemingly self-inflicted anxiety and stress is actually itself a product of a pre-existing and underlying condition. This is just another area in which those without these types of conditions manifest their failure to comprehend the experience of those who have them: they cannot conceive of anything resulting from this condition as anything other than either a character flaw (or "wrong choice"), or the result of a character flaw (or "wrong choice" -- and bear in mind the implication of deliberateness in using the word choice). But such a model is inappropriate, and does nothing to actually help the person suffering an illness which is the product of a biochemical imbalance in the brain.