Moses and Jake continue their review of the hit Amazon Prime show Hunters, which follows the adventures of a group of Nazi Hunters in New York in the 1970's. We bring many questions.

            Why do we need to remember the painful things?

            We need to know where we came from so we don't repeat it.

            We need to know where we came from so we know what's driving us, and what we're carrying.

            We need to know what we are carrying so we can lay it down.

            Why did God command the Children of Israel to build memorial stones? To remember how He showed up with them. Why does the church partake of the Eucharist? To call to remembrance what Christ did - to ritually recreate and participate in the events of our salvation.

            Remembrance can be life giving, connective, healing even. I don't see that coming out in Hunters. When they talk about remembrance, there is a sense of remembering heritage, and that seems to be a binding agent. Very much an Us vs Them dynamic. Also a high vengeance component.

            We could say that technically the Hunters are holding a grudge on behalf of the Jewish people. But we wouldn't really talk about it that way usually, because we generally think of holding a grudge as bad. Why do we find a way to forgive these folks for what they do? Is it just because of the badness they've gone through? Is one exempted from forgiveness when the atrocities committed against them have reached a certain point?

            Compare and contrast The Hunters with Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place. She engaged the same enemy differently, and achieved forgiveness.

What is the difference between vengeance and justice.

            Vengeance, revenge, is an expression of an anger part. It's a reaction to injustice and boundary violation. I think it's meant to be protective against a feeling of helplessness, and against the gnawing horror of irreplaceable loss and irreparable damage. What was broken cannot be repaired, therefore the only agency I have left is to destroy in return.

            Justice is to put all things in their proper place. This could include consequences, but could also allow for healing. I would say true justice can be done from a place of compassion, or at least calm. It's not out to punish or destroy, but to simply allot what is meet and right.

            We also see the binding power of ritual, the way self-sacrifice makes God real, and a whole lot of trauma.

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