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Joe Biden on Forgiveness
June 4, 2007
ZAHN: Let's move on to the concept of forgiveness, which is key in your religion.
BIDEN: Yes.
ZAHN: When it comes to the 9/11 hijackers, will you ever be capable of forgiving them for what they did?
BIDEN: You know, I wish I were a better Catholic. The answer to -- the God's honest truth is, I have not been able to come to that conclusion yet. I have forgiven things that have happened to me, but it's -- in a sense, it's harder to forgive these major, major, major impositions of brutality on humanity. And I find it much more difficult. It's easier to forgive when you're hurt. I imagine it's your experience as well. Hard to forgive when you hurt your child -- your child is hurt. So, I find it counterintuitive, but I have difficulty on forgiving that.
Joseph Biden, Jr.
Joseph Biden is vice president of the United States. He took office in January 2009 after serving for thirty-six years as a U.S. senator from Delaware. When he was first elected in 1972, Biden became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. In...
BIDEN: Yes.
ZAHN: When it comes to the 9/11 hijackers, will you ever be capable of forgiving them for what they did?
BIDEN: You know, I wish I were a better Catholic. The answer to -- the God's honest truth is, I have not been able to come to that conclusion yet. I have forgiven things that have happened to me, but it's -- in a sense, it's harder to forgive these major, major, major impositions of brutality on humanity. And I find it much more difficult. It's easier to forgive when you're hurt. I imagine it's your experience as well. Hard to forgive when you hurt your child -- your child is hurt. So, I find it counterintuitive, but I have difficulty on forgiving that.
Joseph Biden, Jr.
Joseph Biden is vice president of the United States. He took office in January 2009 after serving for thirty-six years as a U.S. senator from Delaware. When he was first elected in 1972, Biden became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. In...