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Yesterday I saw the above question as the headline of a story in a newspaper.
I thought to myself that this is a question typical of today's "celebrity culture".
Why should I "forgive" Tiger Woods?... or not?
The reality is that Tiger Woods did nothing to ME.
His offense is humanly speaking against his wife, his children, himself.....and someone else: God.
In Shakespeare's famous historical play Richard III he has the infamously villainess King of the title trying to convince his sister-in-law, the widowed Queen Elizabeth, to convince her daughter, his niece, to marry him. This is despite he has encompassed the deaths of her two sons, the "Princes in the Tower." She understandably resists and he advances various oaths to overcome her objection. He finally tries to invoke God; to which Elizabeth hotly replies "God's wrong is most of all!"
Without importing specifically Catholic teaching into the marriage of two non-Catholics. the very fact that his seemingly manic adulteries strikes a chord in even the jaded conscience of our culture.
There is something obviously profoundly wrong in his actions, which he admits.
Why is adultery wrong?...Apart from the deep pain inflicted upon spouses, children, and even the lying the adulterer does to his "mistresses"....a broken vow is an offense human character...and a man's Creator.
"God's wrong is most of all!"...
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