more than half of amercia would be dead?

Question

if we still followed the old testaments many of us would be stoned to death for adultery talking back to parents working on a sunday are all punishable by death

and if women spoke in church their hands would be cut off
a women interfering with her husbands fight was punishable by death

happy was he that taketh thy little ones and dasheth them against the stones!

wasn't that in the bible?

Answer 1

You do have a point.

If one supports the death penalty because it is supported in the Old Testament then should that person also support the death penalty for the crimes deserving of the death penalty in the Old Testament?

In the Bible the following crimes deserved the death penalty:
+ Murder (Gen 9:6, Ex 21:12, Numb 35:16-21).
+ Abuse of father or mother (Ex 21:15).
+ Speaking a curse over parents (Ex 21:17).
+ Blasphemy against God (Lev 24:14-16,23).
+ Breaking the Sabbath (Ex 31:14, Numb 15:32-36).
+ Practicing magic (Ex 22:18).
+ Fortune telling and practicing sorcery (Lev 20:27).
+ Religious people who mislead others to fall away (Deut 13:1-5, 18:20).
+ Adultery and fornication (Lev 20:10-12, Deut 22:22).
+ If a woman has intercourse before marriage (Deut 22:20-21).
+ If two people have intercourse when one of them is engaged. (Deut 22:23-24).
+ The daughter of a priest practicing prostitution (Lev 21:9).
+ Rape of someone who is engaged (Deut 22:25).
+ Having intercourse with animals (Ex 22:19).
+ Worshipping idols (Ex 22:20, Lev 20:1-5, Deut 17:2-7).
+ Incest (Lev 20:11-12, 14, 19-21).
+ Homosexuality (Lev 20:13).
+ Kidnapping (Ex 21:16).
+ To bear false testimony at a trial (Deut 19:16, 19).
+ Contempt of court (Deut 17:8-13).

The biblically approved methods of execution in the Old Testament are stoning, burning, using a sword, spear or arrow (Lev 20:27, 21:9, Ex 19:13, 32:27, Numb 25:7-8).

From a Catholic point of view:

Jesus, in John 8:1-11, spares a women guilty of adultery whom the Mosaic Law said should be stoned to death.

If the guilty person's identity and responsibility has been fully determined then non-lethal means to defend and protect the people's safety from the aggressor are more in keeping with the common good and the dignity of the human person.

The Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives.

However in today's modern society, the capability of rendering the offender incapable of doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2267: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm#2267

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Well I will not claim to be
the adequate person to
spare the life of another
or doom them.
Nor follow anything.
I think I shall create my own path of freedom.
: x

Answer 3

did you even read the answer to your last question.

or do you even care and just want to argue?