Re: Death penalty
"Karl" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Karl <[email protected]> wrote: > By all means do not kill anyone. But that is a separate situation from > not allowing the state to impose a capital punishment on the worst of societies > offenders. Heck, this could even be in the realm of rendering to Caesar. Sure, an argument for that could be made, especially if you pull in St. Paul's statements about the state wielding the sword and all. > And there is another issue: Are we again imposing Christian values on the > secular state? Given the seeming popularity of the death penalty among Christians, maybe we're already doing that. **and maybe we cannot help it to a degree. But then again,secular states often apply the death penalty. Simply by not objecting a Christian is not imposing anything. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot