Idaho Moves Forward With Plan to Execute Pedophiles

Red State ^ | 2/14/24 | Ben Kew

[samiam5]

Applauding evil doesn’t seem very righteous to me.
I’d string up a child predator in my own tree.
I think we should use the death penalty for a lot more crimes than we do.
However, torture and abuse is not part of our criminal justice system.
Cheering torture and abuse is depraved.

[55Ford]

If only there was a law like this for high government officials who commit Treason - Oh! wait, never-mind.

[GMThrust]

Both of your responses are spot on. I was wrong and thank you for pointing that out.

[daniel1212]

Wasn't that thought to be hyperbole of the type that was common of the language at the time.

It is thought that, and the heart is the problem, but if we cannot resist the temptation of some thing that entices us to sin, esp. if it is needed or actually useful, like booze, then it should go out. And we should be sensitive to what grieves the Spirit of Christ, though I often do, even if to a degree. Obviously there are things that can be used for good or evil, like the Internet instance, and thus cutting such off is a prayerful decision. Sex addicts should if porn cannot be avoided.

[RoosterRedux]

I am referring to the "pluck out your eyeball" sort of commands.

That admonition appears to use hyperbole to convey the seriousness of sin...not to encourage people to pluck out their eyeballs.

[Elsie]

“There is a deep, dark, dark side in our culture," he said. And it’s our job to protect the children. There are times when things are so wicked that retribution is appropriate."

In other news...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=idaho+abortion+laws&ia=web

[Elsie]

Ask your mother-in-law if we should also execute abortionists.

[Elsie]

While we are at it...

Leviticus 20:10 ESV

"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

[Elsie]

But what if a person just THINKS about having sex with a child?

Matthew 5:28 niv
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The bill will not protect the children who have been attacked. It will only punish their assailants, which is good enough for me.

You can’t stop a deeply embedded psychotic compulsion with a few exceptions due to new medicines and possibly brain surgery.

[daniel1212]

I am referring to the "pluck out your eyeball" sort of commands. That admonition appears to use hyperbole to convey the seriousness of sin...not to encourage people to pluck out their eyeballs.

That is certainly hyperbole since unlike something like booze, eyes are a vital organ, and the negative effects of removal would be profound, while to rid oneself of lustful thoughts could also justify removal of the mind itself.

And since it is our sinful nature that leads us to sin, then consistent with the removal principal, suicide could be justified. But spiritually this mortification is exactly what the Spirit of Christ prescribes. (Rm. 6)