What do you do when someone who you thought was a friend sets you up to take the fall for a murder they committed? What do you do when the person they murdered is tied to a very violent crime family? Quickly it becomes clear that you were set up and your family was put in danger so that this so-called friend could shift the blowback from their own family onto yours. But how are you supposed to feel about it? Obviously it must mean that he was never your friend in the first place, but should you hate this person? Should you attack them? Should you dissolve all connections to them and reject them and leave them to their own fate?
Hate is a word that many Christians and people in general try to avoid legitimizing. I think that's probably a good idea. So what are the alternatives to hate? Revenge? Many people try to unplug emotionally and simply look to revenge as a way to clean the slate. But still, it seems too connected to hate.
If someone you thought you had a special relationship with betrays your trust to such a degree as to put your family in danger by framing you with crimes they've committed, something has to be done though. Putting aside hate and revenge, what are the options?
I think my only option is to distance myself from this so-called friend and leave them to deal with the murder they committed and whatever blowback there might be from it. It's really not responsible of me to put my family in any more danger than they may already be in by mixing myself up in the situation via revenge or defense of this person. What they did is unforgivably wrong. There's no going back after this. Our friendship is over. I have other friends who say that I should risk my family to defend this person from the crime family they attacked, but I think it may only be because they happen to be even closer to this friend than I am and they all happen to go to the same church, and I really can't put my family in that position.
So what do you do when someone you thought was a friend frames you for murder against a violent crime family and then leaves you to deal with the blowback?
I think all you can do is walk away, treat them like a stranger. If the stuff they're doing continues to threaten your family, you may have to get involved in some way, but it certainly won't be to defend this person. Those days are over.