>but i think his point in the article was that it's dangerous
to forgive some things.

Therein lies one of the differences between relious groups, possibly.
My belief is that we're told to forgive people, not things. Forgiving
the person does not mean the thing was ok to do, and does not
mean you will or should let it happen again. This difference
in perspective may drive some of the difference in how forgiveness
is taught and handled.

>btw, we have a rotten record on that count -- we keep saying
... we'll never let something like that ever happen again, but
our actions over the past half-century have shown that we're
quite willing to stand by and watch genocide after genocide.

Yes, and when we do intervene we're accused of bullying and/or
of doing it for wrong reasons (e.g., "no war for oil") ...