This paper considers critiques of religious forgiveness proposed through recent moral injury research by psychologist Brett Litz and the recent book Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by psychiatrist Judith Herman. Religious discourses on forgiveness do not locate justice first in relationship to the individual or the community but in relationship to repentance before the divine. This undoubtedly can be abused in certain contexts such as Christian perpetrators who use God’s offer of forgiveness through Jesus Christ as a “free pass” to avoid true accountability or reparations. But I argue this does not have to be the case. Transcendent claims about Christian or other forms of religious forgiveness draw from rich communal traditions of penitence and repentance which also do not necessarily force a choice between confronting the therapeutic or structural issues at hand in moral injury.