Is “Forgiveness” Actually A Helpful Goal?

Or is the pressure to forgive a form of spiritual bypassing? Have you heard the term “thought-terminating cliché”? I first learned it when I read Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, though it was coined by psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton in the 1960s. Montell writes, “[The term ‘thought-terminating cliché’] refers to catchphrases aimed […]