RPhilbeck wrote on Wed, 12 December 2007 12:55 |
Andy Peters wrote on Wed, 12 December 2007 13:55 |
RPhilbeck wrote on Wed, 12 December 2007 08:57 |
wwittman wrote on Tue, 11 December 2007 00:54 |
now people who are anti-abortion but pro death penalty... THOSE people are morons.
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Why do you think they are morons?
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Because they claim that abortion is murder, yet they condone (and in a lot of cases, rabidly support) the death penalty, which has the same result.
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One is a convicted murderer, and the other is an unborn child guilty of nothing.
What can I say about a person who is against the death penalty, but pro-abortion? Doesn't this argument work both ways?
Great post Fibes!
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First, I have to call out a typical pro-life straw man: Calling pro-choice "pro-abortion."
Also, your argument suggests that all life is sacred, unless you are
allegedly a murderer?
We have innumerable examples of executed felons being exonerated posthumously. You would think that on the basis of common sense, we would not use the death penalty because of our track record. Besides, the average cost of putting somebody to death is $24 million. It's probably cheaper to let them rot in prison, which is probably a worse fate, and is at least undoable if you wrongly convicted them!
BTW, I wonder who Jesus would execute.
Besides, many scholars will tell you that "an eye for an eye" means that if you take an eye, you must give one back - not that if you took mine, I get to take yours. The first depiction sounds much more like something Jesus would have taught. You know ... "Forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us." Not, "forgive us as we commit further sins in the name of vengeance."
"Christians" crack me up. Being a recovering "born again", I can tell you first hand that the majority of them spend so much time trying to impose some morality, into which they've been indoctrinated, on everybody else, rather than trying to emulate Christ. I've seldom encountered a more judgmental, self righteous, myopic, hypocritical bunch of folks.