The Trial Of The Adulterer. Execute Or Pardon?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Andrey Zlotnikov for TSN Blogs “If anyone is found lying with a married wife, then both must be put to death: the man who was lying with the woman, and the woman; and so take away evil from Israel. "

Deuteronomy Chapter 22, 22-24

An adulterer is being tried at the gate of Purgatory.

I give the floor to the prosecution

A large devil, dressed in a navy blue Stuart Hughes suit, flicked his tail and began his speech.

“Dear Saint Peter.

I propose to immediately take this villain to the underworld and give him over to hellish torture. The cauldron and resin of the best quality are prepared. We will cook it in it until the end of time and will not cook it.

Look at him. He dropped his eyes to the floor, hunched over. And even yesterday a rooster walked like a rooster, he trampled everyone to whom he got. And on the surface, you can’t tell. "A decent man" - everyone was talking about him and did not know what he really was.

And inside - a traitor, a thief and a traitor. Lies. Oathbreaker.

In the presence of witnesses, he uttered the words: "To love you in sorrow and in joy, in wealth and in poverty, in sickness and health, until death do us part."

There can be many motives for cheating, and they can be understood. After all, we understand the act of Rodion Raskolnikov. He killed, but he feels himself not a trembling creature, but the master of destinies. This is what the defense side will appeal to. But to understand does not mean to forgive.

“What did the defendant not like? Caring and faithful wife. Gorgeous. Son and daughter.

For the sake of lust, he became a murderer. First he killed in himself - love, gratitude, tenderness, and then in her. There was a strong family, but now the devil knows what. Oh, sorry, Peter.

He exhausted his wife, she was distressed. Maybe a knife in her back wouldn't hurt her as much as from that mental wound that he inflicted on her every time.

Children, too, are worn out. Instead of gifts, he gave the children time and attention to his mistresses. In the family - scandals, screams, showdowns. Children grew up watching suffering and family scenes every day. He does not yet know that each cub will repeat his path. The boy will commit adultery, and the girl will be unhappy in marriage, she will marry three times and get married.

But what further aggravates his guilt is that he not only doomed himself to hell, but also all the girls whom he seduced. By the way, he also lied to them, promised to divorce, get married, give birth to children. Twisted, twisted them as he wanted.

I demand the most severe punishment for him, which I actually warned about above."

The devil rubbed a penny with his hoof and stepped back, leaving room for the guardian angel.

The halo shone in the rays of the sun. The white wings were spread wide.

The angel himself was an exact copy of the defendant, eighteen years old. Beautiful and blameless.

“Dear Saint Peter!

There is no doubt that my counterpart is a rare goat. And almost everything the devil said is true. But there are reasons that can serve as an excuse in many ways.

First of all, and this is obvious from just one glance at him, my client grew up with a neurotic personality organization. Everything he did can be explained by his unhealthy need to prove to himself that someone needs him. And no matter how many women's hearts he kidnapped, everything was not enough to feel at least the slightest bit of his own worth. And he did not want to find warmth in another, but to prove to himself that he is alive. Each new woman instilled in him hope for healing, for quenching the thirst that tormented him, but it did not pass.

In childhood, they did not give him the love that allows him to build healthy and honest relationships in adulthood. So he was stuck at fourteen years old. Remained a teenager, collecting signs of female attention.

Relationships are built by two, and it is not fair to assign all responsibility for treason to him. After all, a person wants to be loved, as he invented for himself, and is looking for someone who can satisfy this need.

And the spouse could not satisfy the carnal need for sex. Naturally, there was no such passion and fire in her that he met in other women. There was not enough excitement and life in her. In fact, he could have tried, but he didn't want to. There was a lot of resentment against his wife. She did not live the way he wanted, did not obey. The children were not brought up like that. In addition to all of the above, our defendant took revenge with the help of treason to his wife.

And I didn’t leave, I told myself - I’m staying for the sake of the children. And every time, after another adultery, he suffered terribly and did not find a place.

He is weak, a fool, he has lost himself, he has lost his family - you see, he repents.

Let us send him to hell for re-education, and if someone remembers him on earth with a kind word - in purgatory for a thousand years."

“That will be,” said Saint Peter, and the devil, with a joyful squeal, wrapped his tail around the sinner and took him to the underworld.

The moral of this fable is that a judgment seat of this kind takes place every day in the soul of an adulterer, regardless of gender. And adults flatly refuse to grow up: it is easier for them to suffer than to take responsibility for their lives and become free and happy

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