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Death penalty is unchristian
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Posted on 05/05/2014 5:59:03 PM PDT by stirrinthepuddin

The recent and ghastly botched execution of a man in Oklahoma has rekindled my thoughts on capital punishment -- a practice outlawed in most civilized countries. Indeed, most of the industrialized world looks with horror on the United States, in this regard, as a primitive and backward country.

Just in passing fact, capital punishment was banned in the Netherlands in 1870, in Costa Rica in 1877, in Colombia in 1910. In allowing the death penalty, the United States stands with Libya, Uganda, Cuba, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea, among our other peers.

It's a sad commentary on justice in this country that, in a nation so plagued by capital murder, we should make it a state practice as well. Do we not see the connection? You would guess that a nation obsessed with guns and violence -- just read the papers -- might at some point notice that when the state participates in this brutality, there is a tacit agreement that the most complete response to provocation is death.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: botchedabortions; deathpenalty; godgap; religiousleft
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The church of CNN!

I didn't have the heart to post this in the religion forum!

(Killing the innocent, unborn is ...?)

1 posted on 05/05/2014 5:59:03 PM PDT by stirrinthepuddin
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Such twaddle.


2 posted on 05/05/2014 6:00:29 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Don’t kill (unless it’s self defense) .. you stay ‘un-killed’ yourself!

Simple! 8)


3 posted on 05/05/2014 6:00:32 PM PDT by stirrinthepuddin
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Hypocrites.


4 posted on 05/05/2014 6:02:18 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Wow, I thought they were big fans of the “separation of church and state.”


5 posted on 05/05/2014 6:03:36 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: stirrinthepuddin

“my thoughts....” I think therefore I am.


6 posted on 05/05/2014 6:04:17 PM PDT by madameguinot
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To: stirrinthepuddin

[eyeroll] These useless fascist drones continue to consume oxygen that could be put to so many more beneficial uses, like rust.


7 posted on 05/05/2014 6:04:44 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Oh now CNN decides to become the “Christian News Network”.


8 posted on 05/05/2014 6:05:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I didn't have the heart to post this in the religion forum!

LOL! Good call. BTT

9 posted on 05/05/2014 6:05:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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10 posted on 05/05/2014 6:07:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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HUH? If there was no death penalty, there would be no Christianity!


11 posted on 05/05/2014 6:08:44 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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Would I be way out of bounds if I assumed that Mr Parini’s brand of “Christianity” forbids the DP but celebrates abortion and homosexual “marriage”?
12 posted on 05/05/2014 6:08:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Baloney! Read Genesis Chapter 9 verse 6.


13 posted on 05/05/2014 6:09:16 PM PDT by sport
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I find it fascinating how non-Christians will try to lecture Christians on how their actions are not Christian.


14 posted on 05/05/2014 6:09:30 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: null and void

Ooh, good point! Plus God resorted to handing out the death penalty repeatedly. Not to put ourselves on the same footing with Him, but it’s obviously not something He condemns.


15 posted on 05/05/2014 6:10:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: null and void

+1


16 posted on 05/05/2014 6:12:35 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Correct, they are against the death penalty unless it is an unborn child. They are the murderers of over 50 million unborn. They think like all the good ole tyrants. Hitler, Stalin and Mao!!


17 posted on 05/05/2014 6:13:10 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Matthew 5:17-18 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

The death penalty is entirely appropriate from a Christian perspective. “Unchristian” describes the evil actions that put those murderers on death row.


18 posted on 05/05/2014 6:13:17 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Baloney! Read Genesis Chapter 9 verse 6

I suppose what the man did to the innocent child, in the eyes of the writer of the story is o.k.

As far as I am concerned, the son of a bitch did not suffer enough. But that is just the way I feel.

19 posted on 05/05/2014 6:13:53 PM PDT by sport
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To: stirrinthepuddin

Since when id CNN so concerned with Christian practice?


20 posted on 05/05/2014 6:14:00 PM PDT by Gamecock (The covenant is a stunning blend of law and love. (TK))
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