A few years back when I was studing in Seminary (yes I said it) I found that I was always asking questions that the answers that were there were vague or not reassuring and so like most on quests I went out to study other groups of people and religions to see what things were similar and what things were different. I was hoping to find answers to things like why bad things happen to good people. or why the good die young. I couldn't accept that God needed another flower or that he was teaching people a lesson etc etc. I don't let my daughter experience a snake bite to teach her the lesson not to play with snakes. I know that some things happen because we were not paying attention and some things happen because people are just plain evil. Enough said. I find that through every religion and teaching there is something said about forgiveness and retribution for sins (or things done that were not approved of by the current time and group of people). I want to explore forgiveness because I am finding in this time that people have done it a littl too much. What I mean is that when something is justifyably and inherently wrong and it breaks the law of your boundaries over and over why don't you or can't you say anything to the perp? I mean if your neighbor constantly nocks over your garden knome why is it a bad thing to ask them not to? I understand where the nations hostilities are brewing over from recently. It has been centuries of unjustices and collectively people are tired of it happening by the same perps. I think this is why so many have been building momentum on issues of justice. I could never get an answer to why the events of my past happened to me. I do know that although I will forgive ( because it hasnt happened yet) I still believe that the offenders should be subject to the judicial system and not some fairy tale land ideals that says just let them go free to do more harm to others.
With all that said the DOD has found that with all of their work towards reducing rape and sexual harassment in the military there is a 11% increase. Now that could be that more people are coming forward (both men and women) or that the way they gather their data is more accurate currently or that more people are experiencing these negative behaviors against them. What do you think about this? What could be done to better gather the most accurate data?
