Forgiveness is not the same thing as having no opinion. It is not the same thing as standing for nothing. When we begin with forgiveness, we open the book of the city. We have a chance to explore the different pages. We can begin to understand the characters.
Interest is restored.
It is no longer all about ourselves. There may have been a time when religious people were unaware of the way they confuse trespasses and differences. But it's hard, if you read and study Jesus, to continue with that kind of self-serving naivete and blasphemy. He lived his life in direct contradiction to the religious criminalization of human difference. The life of faith is not simply about forgiving others the wrong things they do against us.