Most Christians I know (family included) tend to be against the Death Penalty, but doesn't it say in the OT "eye for an eye"?
Hypothetically, if a seven-year-old (one at "the age of reason") who hadn't yet learned of Jesus but was otherwise an innocent, happened to be kidnapped, bound, tortured, raped and killed, why shouldn't we kill the offender? If that poor child is already doomed to an eternity in Hell for not believing, why should the sentence on the perpetrator be any lighter? Of course, according to Christian doctrine, he'll already be spending the rest of eternity in Hell, but so will she. Why shouldn't we mete out a little bit of flesh-and-blood justice to the kidnapper/rapist/pedophile/torturer/murderer to compensate? Thoughts?
2006-11-27
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