Yes, well, law can be permission, too it can mean nothing changes (when perverted or misapplied). She then continues, “‘Forgiveness is a religious construct, a means of maintaining the status quo,’ Toews tells me today. The “novel zooms in on the 48 hours in which the town’s women have to choose whether to forgive their assailants or leave the only lives they’ve ever known and risk eternal damnation,” relates Brown. It was when discussing this work - which concerns the rape of more than 100 women and girls in a Bolivian Mennonite town - that Toews flayed forgiveness. The Independent article’s author, Helen Brown, describes Toews (pronounced “tayves”) as an “award-winning writer of seven bestselling novels” this includes 2018’s Women Talking, which last year was made into a film. Yet this rare occurrence might just have happened, in what can rightly be described as a jump-the-shark version of anti-Christian criticism: an attack on forgiveness.Īt issue is a Monday Independent article titled “Miriam Toews: ‘Forgiveness is a religious construct, a means of maintaining the status quo.’” Toews, apparently, is a Canadian novelist of some repute who, having been raised in a Mennonite community, is still at close to 60 years old in a teenage rebellion phase. Seldom do our society’s Christophobes come up with anything new when attacking the object of their ire. Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society
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