Would Jesus Support The Death Penalty?
Nope. For a number of reasons, fallibility in legal systems deciding who has the right to decide who lives and who dies...that is, always finding exception in systems that neither perfectly weigh upon the crimes that individuals may have or may not have committed, or in another words, legal systems are not perfect, and that imperfection is neither bears neither enough warrant either for the sake of state security or punishment, reform, or much else, but this is an old tiresome argument. Secondly, in the gospels it would seem Christ Himself asked that those seeking justice, should let Him (Christ) be that justice. It would seem this role of subservience would put man at the disposal of neither, in one interpretive sense, acting alone in seeking justice or retribution, but letting God entirely handle this matter alone, or that in the end, when facing judgement and accountability for actions, God is inevitably a final judge that decides on the matter of justice. It would seem consolations to victims are that, while it would seem that justice at any given time might not be served, this is a short sighted view to the prospects of justice in the spiritual long term sense. After all a soul could have Eternity to consider for their actions, and compare that to the short amount of time spent committing an act of injustice.
It is ironic, that people may popularly hold a given view that Christ would actually oppose the death penalty, and that this hadn't popularly translated into the abolition. Maybe, however, the problem here weren't that popularly people couldn't change policy, otherwise, but merely that the nature of politics on this matter were that those opposed neither were in enough objection to influence political outcomes in a negative sense. That is when political issues were considered and weighed alongside one another, the less popular view could still be a position taken, for the sake of insulating political patronages. Its nothing new to power elite politics though, or the good news is that while many American's might also not believe in the big bang and the influence of this could possibly mean potential wholesale nationwide changes in things like science education, it also means the state potential provides for and facilitates the sanctification of things like the death penalty. Here I almost wonder for the alibi, for the politician, while at times historical views concerning the death penalty may have differed, and even the incurred added economical costs neither implied that state system's could ensure a likewise cost efficient killing, or for that matter really substantiate the benefits such as reductions in crime in any given area, owing to all the legal hurdles otherwise, and even so, if it in theory were more plausible, often times one should speculate that increased costs were more likely then less so. The other part of this problem is something of social religious/culture like alibi for the cover of politicians, that a state were there like the hand of God to provide justice to people, or who in a given democracy shouldn't want this?! The problem with bringing back the guillotine these days, however, weren't that people wouldn't perceive this as absolutely barbaric (or enough people as is)...its just that a given State system knows better in the process of social refinement cherry picking in its given social population. On the one hand, while advances have been made in alleviating our sufferings to the woes of this world, are we more numb not only to our own suffering but the suffering of others?! While its hard to imagine exceeding proportions of individuals that were as cruel and indifferent as in the days of centuries past, at least at such a given time, there should be a whole host of factors which differentiate a given culture, and the sort of juvenile revivalism that have translated and conspired alongside wholesale machinery should seem a blip in time. Endemic changes in the long term sense such as these should seem more headed the path of extinction, at least we weren't genetically altered, and if you believed strongly enough in intercessions, human nature were likely not going to change anytime soon...here markedly, the sales of gaming consoles are down, and this could be a good sign with respect to social indoctrination! Although if admittedly it were true likewise, my time in gaming, I should wonder were excessive and had it changed one's perspective or sensitivities otherwise?! Here I think, as could be self customary, that there is an exception on this point...I am I, and someone else that is not I, neither has my perspective. At least if one could leave this on a point of humor?! But at least on another point, while we and our children may be more highly trained to kill from a virtual standpoint, and in act justice according to neutralizing threats, there aren't games out there as much to teach us excellent legal jurisprudence. If it were so, maybe there'd be more a more vocal and better educated populace, to steer a given elite as opposed to being steered on this issue?
It also seems potentially also that there were at face value pitfalls to the assumption that given populace were merely observant enough with respect to history, religion, scripture, and so forth, so as to acknowledge that Christ would likely be opposed to the Death Penalty, but not observant enough in bringing about changes within the system that they lived in, or that this were laden with some inset hypocrisy ranging to the degree that observation weren't even to the levels of Pascal's wager. Certainly, at least, the matter of politics ranging here should be a more complicated picture.
Nope. For a number of reasons, fallibility in legal systems deciding who has the right to decide who lives and who dies...that is, always finding exception in systems that neither perfectly weigh upon the crimes that individuals may have or may not have committed, or in another words, legal systems are not perfect, and that imperfection is neither bears neither enough warrant either for the sake of state security or punishment, reform, or much else, but this is an old tiresome argument. Secondly, in the gospels it would seem Christ Himself asked that those seeking justice, should let Him (Christ) be that justice. It would seem this role of subservience would put man at the disposal of neither, in one interpretive sense, acting alone in seeking justice or retribution, but letting God entirely handle this matter alone, or that in the end, when facing judgement and accountability for actions, God is inevitably a final judge that decides on the matter of justice. It would seem consolations to victims are that, while it would seem that justice at any given time might not be served, this is a short sighted view to the prospects of justice in the spiritual long term sense. After all a soul could have Eternity to consider for their actions, and compare that to the short amount of time spent committing an act of injustice.
It is ironic, that people may popularly hold a given view that Christ would actually oppose the death penalty, and that this hadn't popularly translated into the abolition. Maybe, however, the problem here weren't that popularly people couldn't change policy, otherwise, but merely that the nature of politics on this matter were that those opposed neither were in enough objection to influence political outcomes in a negative sense. That is when political issues were considered and weighed alongside one another, the less popular view could still be a position taken, for the sake of insulating political patronages. Its nothing new to power elite politics though, or the good news is that while many American's might also not believe in the big bang and the influence of this could possibly mean potential wholesale nationwide changes in things like science education, it also means the state potential provides for and facilitates the sanctification of things like the death penalty. Here I almost wonder for the alibi, for the politician, while at times historical views concerning the death penalty may have differed, and even the incurred added economical costs neither implied that state system's could ensure a likewise cost efficient killing, or for that matter really substantiate the benefits such as reductions in crime in any given area, owing to all the legal hurdles otherwise, and even so, if it in theory were more plausible, often times one should speculate that increased costs were more likely then less so. The other part of this problem is something of social religious/culture like alibi for the cover of politicians, that a state were there like the hand of God to provide justice to people, or who in a given democracy shouldn't want this?! The problem with bringing back the guillotine these days, however, weren't that people wouldn't perceive this as absolutely barbaric (or enough people as is)...its just that a given State system knows better in the process of social refinement cherry picking in its given social population. On the one hand, while advances have been made in alleviating our sufferings to the woes of this world, are we more numb not only to our own suffering but the suffering of others?! While its hard to imagine exceeding proportions of individuals that were as cruel and indifferent as in the days of centuries past, at least at such a given time, there should be a whole host of factors which differentiate a given culture, and the sort of juvenile revivalism that have translated and conspired alongside wholesale machinery should seem a blip in time. Endemic changes in the long term sense such as these should seem more headed the path of extinction, at least we weren't genetically altered, and if you believed strongly enough in intercessions, human nature were likely not going to change anytime soon...here markedly, the sales of gaming consoles are down, and this could be a good sign with respect to social indoctrination! Although if admittedly it were true likewise, my time in gaming, I should wonder were excessive and had it changed one's perspective or sensitivities otherwise?! Here I think, as could be self customary, that there is an exception on this point...I am I, and someone else that is not I, neither has my perspective. At least if one could leave this on a point of humor?! But at least on another point, while we and our children may be more highly trained to kill from a virtual standpoint, and in act justice according to neutralizing threats, there aren't games out there as much to teach us excellent legal jurisprudence. If it were so, maybe there'd be more a more vocal and better educated populace, to steer a given elite as opposed to being steered on this issue?
It also seems potentially also that there were at face value pitfalls to the assumption that given populace were merely observant enough with respect to history, religion, scripture, and so forth, so as to acknowledge that Christ would likely be opposed to the Death Penalty, but not observant enough in bringing about changes within the system that they lived in, or that this were laden with some inset hypocrisy ranging to the degree that observation weren't even to the levels of Pascal's wager. Certainly, at least, the matter of politics ranging here should be a more complicated picture.
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