Is it wrong to be in love with a murderer or other very bad person?

[fakename]

Is it wrong to be in love with a murderer or other very bad person?

I think it is, but then, what happens in marriages if the other person becomes all corrupted and such?

 

[karebear92]

Christ told us to love our enemies, so no it isn’t wrong in my opinion to love someone who does or did terrible things.

In love though… I agree that could be creepy unless you were already in love with them beforehand.

 

[Darran]

If the person was in love with a murderer precisely because he was a murderer they would be wallowing in sin already.

If they were in love with them apart from the murder, they would just be making a dangerous discision in wanting to marry them.

 

[scottmac]

no, but why would you want to be? Leopards don’ t change their spots.

 

[fakename]

(1) the love for such a person, is different from wanting to be married to them.

(2) is it overly imprudent (intrinsically wrong) to love someone like this in this way, or is it really and literally not bad? Just double checking, since I didn’t expect so many “it’s not wrong” answers.

 

[Thankfulness]

Wanting and praying and working for the repentance and true good of another person is love.
If someone is attracted to a murderer or person who lives in unrepentant evil, they need to question what is really going on within themselves. And what they understand ‘love’ to mean.

 

[Jaypeeto4]

**If someone is attracted to a murderer or person who lives in unrepentant evil, they need to question what is really going on within themselves. And what they understand ‘love’ to mean. **

I think the above statement contains the key:
a person who lives in UNREPENTANT evil.

After all,

1. Moses committed murder (according to Egyptian Law. The fact that he did
   …it cuz he
   … was angry at the Egyptian for beating up an Israelite I think mitigates it, somewhat,
   …but it doesn’t change the fact that he broke the Law of the state and Natural Law.
   …Under American Law, this biblical hero of ours would still be called a Felon.
   …Yet Zipporah loved him and married him. And God turned him into one of
   …the greatest heroes of the Bible.
2. King David committed murder – and murder of a trusted friend, at that!!
   …And he had to be confronted, over a year later, by the prophet Nathan,
   …who told him a fictional story that angered him, before he ever repented of it.
   …But he finally DID repent, and God forgave him, and let him remain King.
3. King Manasseh committed MASS murder of thousands of innocent people,
   …including the murders of his own little children by FIRE, in sacrifice to Moloch.
   …Jewish tradition also says that among the Lord’s prophets that Manasseh ALSO
   …murdered, was the Prophet ISAIAH, whom Manasseh had sawed-in-half. Ugh.
   …He also deliberately led the WHOLE NATION into demonic Idolatry and set up
   …dastardly Idols RIGHT IN THE TEMPLE ITSELF in Jerusalem.
   …So God let the Babylonians capture him and take him in chains to Babylon.
   …There, this mass murderer, nation-corruptor, and child killer, REPENTED, and
   …God not only FORGAVE Manasseh, but actually RESTORED HIM TO THE THRONE
   …in Jerusalem and restored all his prosperity, too. And the Repentant Manasseh went
   …to work trying to undo the damage he had done (but could not resurrect his thousands
   …of innocent murder victims, including his own children. But he died in the grace of
   …God, this Israelite version of Adolf Hitler, and is a saint of the Old Testament,
   …in heaven today.
4. Saul of Tarsus, our now beloved Apostle SAINT Paul, had many Christians
   …kidnapped, taken to Jerusalem, and murdered. (It was murder. Even though some
   …members of the Sanhedrin gave him letters authorizing him to arrest Christians who
   …were ethnic Jews, Roman Law forbade the murder of these people. He had it
   …done anyway. St. Stephen, as far as I know, was his FIRST victim, and was
   …certainly not his LAST. It took an appariton of Christ, in blazing light from the sky,
   …to stop this vigilante kidnapper and religious-zealot killer in his tracks.
   …Paul repented and, after spending years in the desert in prayer and penance,
   …finally became the beloved Apostle Paul whom we venerate and pray to every day.
   Now, we are focusing on murderers, because their sins are such VIOLENT ones.
   But God’s law declares that all who commit, or have committed, adultery, fornication, blasphemy, sodomy, and the like, are also to be put to death without fail by the state.
   Because these sins are so common among Christians - Catholic and Protestant - and, after a while, we usually repent of them, we do not regard these sins as being as thoroughly EVIL as God DOES regard them. Yet we want friends, wives, etc.
   Are our friends, who know of our repented evils, “sick and twisted” for wanting to be friends with us?? No, of course not. The key is as the quote above says, it is UNREPENTANT evil that we should not be enamoured of. Yet many people have no qualms hanging around with people who regularly commit these evil acts without repentance, even Christians, and have no qualms, despite their Church membership, about VOTING FOR men and women who PROMOTE some of these evil things, repeatedly and without the slightest twinge of conscience about voting for them, KNOWING what they actively, PROactively, support.

 

[TheDumbOx90]

I don’t think there is anything wrong at all loving a murderer or bad person. Perhaps you can see past their faults and see the beauty in them. I think Pope John Paul II loved the man who shot him.

 

[Darran]

I don’t think there is anything wrong at all loving a murderer or bad person. Perhaps you can see past their faults and see the beauty in them. I think Pope John Paul II loved the man who shot him.

Yes but he was not IN love with him.

 

[marymary1975]

I think one think is loving iin the sense of giving forgiveness, praying for that person, etc., which is the way the pope John Paul loved the guy who shot him, and something very different is being in love and wanting to marry a person who is a dangerous criminal. Maybe in an of itself is not a sin but there are some serious repercusions when we are talking about marrying someone who doesn’t have any respect for human life or any kind of moral. If we are talking about a situation of someone who commited a grave sin and is sincerely repented and is working his/her way back to God, yes everybody deserves to have an opportunity. The problem arises when we are talking about someone who doesn’t have any moral or respect towards others and to whom the criminal life is a lifestyle. Unfortunately, when it comes to most criminals (especially people who commited violent crimes and the ones in jail), crime is more of a lifestyle, they are not repentant and jail only makes them worse. I think marrying a criminal is a very risky situation, and remember when the Roman Guard slapped Jesus on the face, what did Jesus do? He didn’t tell him slap me again; he told the Guard “Why did you slap me?” That means yes we must love our enemies but you can’t allow injustice.