Re: Death penalty
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:05 AM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote: > If, as I suspect, you want to whittle this down to some kind of > fantasy where it's a "him or me" battle stand-off to the death, I > believe the right thing to do would be to lay down my life. I'm not > supposed to love my life at all, let alone love it enough to kill > someone else to preserve it. To die is gain, remember? Oh, but that's so much less romantic that the cowboy mentality we like to espouse in America, where the godly Christian he-man brandishes his weapon and blows the baddie's head off. Read the lives of the saints, where so many of them went willing to their deaths. What was with that, trusting God? > Whether or not I would be strong enough to let my conviction overcome > fear or instinct, I don't know. I can only hope that I would. Yes, unfortunately I fail so many of my other ideals. Who knows. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot