Wasting Time on Revenge

In response to Brian - full post here

I agree with you and Avery, naturally. I think that people favor retribution because it makes them feel better, as people who have done a great wrong, apparently deserve the same. We've already pointed out that this is not appropriate, so instead I'll talk about religions.

One of my cousins recently posted something which read something akin to "Don't seek revenge, karma will eventually come back to hurt those who hurt you." I found that to be interesting and pathetic because it is basically saying "don't act in revenge, but hope for it." This still a kind of revenge, which is seemingly contrary to the first message. This cousin identifies as Christian so I tried to identify a genuinely Christian response to that idea. I came up with this "Don't waste your time on revenge. We all deserve to punished for all of eternity; but even those who hurt you can be forgiven and will go to heaven and enjoy paradise and happiness." This message, it seems, is contrary to retribution. Even excluding the historical Jesus, Christians ought to be against retribution.