What good propaganda has the law of retribution that survived the call to forgiveness preached by Jesus Christ! It is difficult to find a truly Christian spirit that, if it does not forgive, at least forgets those who have hurt it, intentionally or unintentionally. All the time, in the literature I read and in the images I consume, I find a cult of revenge that seems to support the actions of people who pass the imperative of revenge on to their descendants.
There are nations and their respective cultures that seem fixated on the idea of revenge for wrongs. Code of Hammurabi from the 18th century BC. C. has already mentioned, precisely with the metaphor of the eye, the right of a man to attack the son of his opponent. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” appears in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy in such a way as to create that retributive justice of evil for evil, the basis of the punishment of punishment after the commission of a crime. I remember the theologian who taught me that mercy is greater than justice, when a crime is forgiven and that gesture is the highest expression of humanity and love. An educational gesture of deep connections.
But society cannot be governed by mercy – the unattainable ideal of the good Jesus. He projected justice as the goal of balanced relations between people and built a painstaking edifice of institutions and laws to achieve it. Perhaps he forgot that the first stone of these constructions rests in the consciousness of man and from there radiates a poisoned liquid when it has no value for gluing the plaster of skyscrapers.
If a spark ignites the flame of hatred, the race to destruction begins: this is clearly visible Iliad, when Achilles returns to the battle (which he abandoned because of the insult received from Agamemnon) because of the death of his beloved Patroclus: and this anger is only quenched by a merciless attack on the Trojan Hector. What is it The Count of Monte Cristo but a long and meticulous story about revenge? Dumas’s fiction was so terrifying that the Catholic Church put the novel in its index. José de la Cuadra left us a story titled like this column, in which an alcoholic husband induces his wife to have an abortion and then looks for someone to blame for revenge.
The contemporary heroine, the brilliant and relentless Lisbeth Salander from the trilogy millennium, by the late Stieg Larsson, who knows enough about technology to empty a bank, is sexually assaulted by her guardian and she pays the price, even tattooing her perpetrator’s backside with blood. There is so much pain and abuse spread throughout the world that we citizens agree with that idea. Or maybe the writer of these and many other works is so skilled that we, the readers, have convinced ourselves that this own justice has been done indispensable.
One of the traditional political skills in Ecuador was to conceal revenge from justice. Follow the explanation of many recently prosecuted members of the assembly. Study their facial and body expressions: they exude low passions, anger of unknown origin. Have they now chosen prosecutor Diana Salazar as the target of this contagious fire, despite coming from afar? Fortunately, this unfortunate initiative can still be suppressed. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
