Are Christians obligated to forgive demons?

On Friday, Oct 10, a demon-possessed creature entered St. Peter's basilica in Rome and walked up to the altar.  In full view of the usual large crowed he undressed, climbed onto the altar and urinated.

You *did* hear about that, right?

No?  Ahh of course not.  For a moment I forgot: the Media sneers that stories like this are "Local interest only."

SO...did the Christians in St. Peter's call for the demon to be beheaded?  Stoned to death?  Hanged?  Did they beat him to death?  Of course not: they just escorted him out and "issued an expulsion order"--which demons routinely ignore.

Just as they do here when we try to deport 'em.  They keep re-entering the U.S. illegally, four, five, six, seven times.  Demons just laugh at laws.

So...I wanted to compare how this demon was treated for desecrating the most iconic church in Christendom to how Muslims treat anyone who dares to desecrate their holiest sites.

Oddly, that doesn't seem to happen.  Closest I found was some guy who draped a slice of bacon over the door handle to a mosque.  He was promptly arrested by civil cops and charged with a hate crime.  No word on how many years he was sentenced to.

I'd always hoped Christianity's tolerant response to demon attacks--as Christ taught--would *eventually* enable Christianity to prevail over Islam.  For decades I believed it might.  No longer.

The reason is that in the past, the non-Muslim world could see the difference in results between Islamic countries and *nominally* Christian ones.  But in the last 20 or 30 years Western nations have been taken over by the Left, which sneers at Christianity.  As a result, western nations no longer offer a clear counter-example that opposes Islam.

The result is that dumb people (by far the majority of humans) support the side that's most forceful.  And more to the point, technically smart pipo like university presidents and professors slobberingly, fawningly support ALL Leftist causes.  So they scream that Israel fighting to take down the Hamas thugs--who brutally raped and butchered and otherwise killed 1,200 Israelis two years ago, and kidnapped 25O more is AWFUL because "innocent pipo are suffering."  When all Hamas had to do was to release all their hostages--which they could have done at any time, but refused to do.  But the "elites" and university profs refuse to condemn Hamas for the attack and kidnapping that caused Israel to enter Gaza.  Interesting.

SO...Despite what we think are Christ's teachings, I'm no longer optimistic that Christian tolerance and forgiveness will eventually bring the people of the world to our side.  But if you believe in God, and that He sent Christ, then you can't believe Christ would teach a set of behaviors that would result in suicide, eh?

Sure.  Very logical.  Which leaves us with a mystery:  It's perfectly possible that Christ meant what the Bible says: Christians are taught to "turn the other cheek" (i.e. forgive) "seven times seventy" (which I interpret as infinitely instead of the math-accurate 490 times).  And in that case Christians would continue to do nothing to forcefully fight Islam.

But I think we might be missing something.

When liberals/Democrats started using the Constitution to claim every type of perversion--yes, EVERY type--is permitted, almost all under the guise of "freedom of speech"--a conservative Supreme Court judge said--in dissent from the majority-- "The Constitution is not a suicide pact." (1949) 

I realize what I'm about to suggest will trigger a firestorm, but...I think the same logic applies to Christ's teaching: Yes, forgiveness is a really optimal behavior: When some drunk driver blowing thru a red light kills your wife and kids, the emotional response is to want him (or her) to get the death penalty.  But obviously that doesn't bring back the dead, so that would seem to be a good case for forgiveness.

Same with wars between nations: WW2 saw countless ghastly, horrible atrocities.  But within a year or two--virtually instantly--Americans and most of our allies put it behind us.  No lingering desire for retribution.  And the result has been encouraging: Germany and Japan have been model nations and allies ever since.  

So I propose that Christ's teaching of forgiveness--NOT tolerance--was only intended for rational humans, not for demons.  You can't reason with demons: they're not moved by either logic or normal human emotions.  *They're totally alien to the human species.*

So what should we do when confronted by demons?  If they're impervious to emotion or logic, and determined to kill good people, what do we do?  Just as "The Constitution is not a suicide pact," I don't think Christianity demands that we simply let demons kill humans.  Instead, just as Christ drove the money-changers out of the temple, I don't think He meant for us to tolerate demons.

I think what He proposed was an efficient way of dealing with rational people--like the overwhelming majority of Germans and Japanese after WW2. 

Now: does this mean we should execute demons?  No idea.  Life in prison with no possibility of parole would probably keep humans safe from them--except if leftist judges release 'em from a "life without parole" sentence, as leftist judges often do, overruling the "no parole" ruling.  So there's a big problem.  Cuz as I understand it, once a demon has taken over a body, they never relinquish it (absent divine intervention).

There's a fascinating story in which Christ dealt with a man possessed by multiple demons.  He ordered the demons to switch hosts, into a herd of pigs, which promptly ran over a cliff into the ocean and drowned.  Obviously we don't have the power to do that.  So did Christ order that we must do nothing, simply tolerating the demon?

So the obvious question is, "How do you distinguish between a demon and a merely very bad person who--unlike demons--might repent if given the gift of forgiveness?

I don't know the answer--or even if there IS a way rational humans could tell.  What I do believe is that demons exist, often disguised as mentally ill people (and at other times as politicians).  In a *rational society* they could be locked away for life.  But leftist judges routinely release killers who were sentenced to life in prison without parole, so that's not a guaranteed fix..

Instead, in an absolutely classic tactic, Leftist judges and "elites" demand that demons deemed mentally ill NOT be put in prison, but in mental institutions.  Then a few years later Democrat polticians demanded that all "mental institutions" be closed.  "What do you want us to do wif duh inmates?"  "Release 'em onto the streets," of course.  

Conservatives warned of the consequences of releasing thousands of mentally ill humanoids (and making it impossible to lock up others in the future), claiming that would result in thousands of innocent Americans being murdered.  Leftists sneered at that warning, and *absolutely assured* Americans that everything would be *totally fine, you stupid deplorables.*

Of course that was horsehit, as the brutal murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska showed (for the thousandth time).

And in the rare cases where a few mentally-ill murderers (demons) ARE sent to prison, an army of Leftist attorneys work tirelessly to get them released.  And as every prisoner is understandably eager to be released, theyll make any claim that could increase their chance of being released, like "I was only convicted because duh jury was biased against my race."

Often the families of the demons' murder victims aren't even notified of parole hearings.  That's not an accident.

So again, I don't know the answer.  But I'm starting to believe that while Christ's "forgiveness" teaching doesn't  mean we should allow demons back on the streets.

Just as the Constitution isn't a suicide pact, the law shouldn't be construed as forcing us to release killers or schizophrenics back to the streets in a month or two.  Instead, demons should be locked up until they're too old to hurt people.