Re: Death penalty
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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________________________________ From: Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 9:24:20 AM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Death penalty 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?<< What that has to do with anything in this discussion is beyond me. But, if you are suggesting that we should be willing to lay down our lives in every situtation, then you should also own up to the fact that calling the police to respond to an intruder in your home betrays that principle. Mike F. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot