Chuck Bryant

There are friends who maybe betray you by like cheating on somebody with someone.

I had a situation like that where I had a former friend I felt like cheated with my

barely ex-girlfriend.

And I spent quite a few years being upset about that and then forgave him.

And it's a powerful thing.

So there's like levels.

But when you get to this kind of thing where someone caused the death of a loved one and then even laughed about it, like to be able to forgive like that is just, that's next level.

It is.

It is so much so, Chuck, that a group of convicted murderers who were serving sentences in prison heard about this and I guess got in touch with one another and raised funds and got a $10,000 scholarship together for Brandon Biggs to go to college.

The convicted murderer sent the kid to college because this very generous act of public forgiveness of his own father's murderer

So, yeah, it is.

It's an astounding thing.

And yet everything that like the research that really, like I said, started to take off in earnest in the 90s has shown us is that we're all perfectly capable of doing that.

The answer is yes.

Yes, you can do that.

You totally could do that.

But that we don't necessarily fully understand how to.

And yet there's a lot of evidence also that it's evolutionarily wired into us to do that.

Yeah, and we'll get into religiosity of it a bit more in detail later.

But all religions talk a lot about forgiveness.