i noticed while reading my other questions on this site that those are are pro life are also for capital punishment. arnt they both murder in your eyes? isnt vengence a sin? please explain.
2006-08-03 17:36:41 · 30 answers · asked by larry j 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
people need to realize that just because i say im am pro choice does not mean im pro abortion or pro kiling babies it just means that i feel its not my place to decide.
2006-08-03 18:04:05 · update #1
you want to talk about not experience the brutal death of a loved one. how bout this: i am jewish and had many family members killed in the holocaust i dont think it gets more brutal. i still feel that i would rather watch hitler rot in prison then have him killed. let him sit there and see the ramifactions of his choices. the decline of germany and the post war suffering he put his people through
2006-08-03 18:13:14 · update #2
Because killing a fetus isn't as acceptable as killing someone with the IQ of a 4 year old child, at least here in America.
2006-08-03 17:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by cognitively_dislocated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can say you are for capital punishment or against capital punishment all you want. But until the day you someone in your own family has been brutally murdered, and that death nearly killed others, because of grief, you do not truely know where you stand. I say this knowing that one of my second cousin was indeed visciously raped, tortured, and murdered. It nearly killed my Aunt, her grandmother. Was I for the death penalty. At the that time most definitly. However, I also know that the death penalty may not be the solution. I think my view about the death penalty has changed with time because of stories about people who are innocent that were killed. I've also heard stories of people whose whole persona completly changed, not because they were trying to get off death row, but because they accepted Jesus as there savior. I'm not saying that I'm against the death penalty, especially if you accept Christ. However, I do believe that we as a nation do need to another look at how we determine who is killed, and see that we are in the right to make those descions. I also feel that we need to make sure that no one persons rights have been taken away in the pursuit of justice. In other words, I feel we need to make it even harder to place someone in death row.
2006-08-03 18:06:10 · answer #2 · answered by nom_de_plume30 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think that you need to read more.
Genesis 9:6 gives government the duty to execute murders (a similar passage can be found in Romans 13:3-4).
Why would justice be a sin?
(Personal vengeance is forbidden in Romans 12:19. But the government is not personal; government is an objective third party when administrating justice. Romans 13:4).
Killing the innocent is a sin (hince pro-life since a baby is presumed innocent -- what sin could she possibly commit in the womb?). Executing the guilty, by contrast, is the job of government.
2006-08-03 17:48:19 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, isn't it? "You're taking a human life! Life begins when the egg is fertilized" Now, wouldn't you say that a grown man, whether or not he hacked his family to bits with a pick axe, is a human life as well? So god created that baby and a woman cannot terminate pregnancy because it's murder and god had a plan for that child. Didn't god also create everyone on death row and give THEM a purpose in life? Isn't god the one true judge, jury and executioner, meaning man cannot and should not decide when this man will face his day of reckoning? However, considering that the bible is a man-made tool of social control, it is full of inconsistencies and contradictions. You'd think that something written through god's divine inspiration WOULD have one resounding message... instead its "eye for an eye.. wait, no, nevermind, take that back. turn the other cheek"
2006-08-03 17:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been wondering that myself. I'm a Christian pacifist and with that I'm pro-life while being against capital punishment and against war. I was reading a magazine and the title of the article was "War is a Pro Life Issue Too". I love that so much...it applies to the death penalty too. Anyways, it makes me really mad when I find Christians who say according to the bible abortion is wrong but capital punishment is okay. I think an honest Christian will find that the bible has more to say about saying no to capital punishment than it does about abortion (although I still believe abortion is wrong).
2006-08-03 17:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by iamsupermanurnot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, I am kind of in the other boat. Of late the evidence is that the death penalty probably should be discontinued. The US is one of a few countries that still does it. Many murder convictions are later shown to be put up jobs due to very shabby defense attorneys. It certainly does not deter murder. It is not cheap.
I am pro-choice. I do not believe anyone should decide about a woman's body except the woman.
Hmmm. Guess that makes me a Progressive.
2006-08-03 17:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by NeoArt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are people that are for abortion(killing babies),so interested in saving killers?A baby has never had a chance to live,to make a mistake,or to make a CHOICE.A death row inmate has made the decision to murder.Pro-choice simply put means 2 people had sex ,and are too irresponsible to take responsibility for their actions.The 2 people then choose to fix the problem by Murdering the only person that has no choice and did nothing wrong.
2006-08-03 17:46:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing by the wording of your question that you are all for killing unborn babies while protecting convicted killers. Do you also go after invalid housewives? Would you agree with the death penalty if we treated the killer to the euphoria of starving to death?
Or just think of the death penalty as very, very late term partial birth abortion.
I'm also guessing you've never had a loved one brutally murdered.
2006-08-03 18:02:22 · answer #8 · answered by angrygramma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am pro both. So I suppose my opinion wouldn't be the best for this. I am 100% pro choice. How would you like your daughter, sister, wife, and/or mother to be rapped by a man. She sees his face when it happens and she becomes pregnant. So every time she looks in the eyes of her child she doesn't see the beauty she see the pain and suffering of being raped. I say catch the person, torture that jerk to the verge of death revive him, then the woman pull the switch on the electric chair. That is justice.
2006-08-03 17:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Knows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pro Choice because the child has not done anything wrong to cause its own death, Pro Death penalty because that person has caused the life of one or many to be ended pre maturely.
2006-08-03 17:42:21 · answer #10 · answered by JD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand where they are coming from because when I was a teenager I used to be like them. That just seems so hypocrtical... I am pro life(thats my choice and I believe everyone should have one) and am against capital punishment.
I think they all care about babies, but once you grow up and f up too many times nobody cares....at least no God fearing christian.
2006-08-03 17:42:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋