tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post4060220054282842551..comments2023-05-21T09:34:10.961-07:00Comments on Ganeida's Knot.: Death by Firing SquadGaneidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476109171650258810noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-88066346450189247392008-11-12T02:59:00.000-08:002008-11-12T02:59:00.000-08:00MamaO, Quite frankly I think prisoners should work...MamaO, Quite frankly I think prisoners should work & pay for their own imprisonment but I can't see that getting much support from any quarter at all. :) My problem, like yours, is the inability to give up on any human made in the image of God, no matter how evil, & to remove forever the opportunity to hear the gospel gives me the heebie~jeebies.Ganeidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17476109171650258810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-42458168818730793162008-11-11T23:56:00.000-08:002008-11-11T23:56:00.000-08:00I'm actually split on the death penalty issue, and...I'm actually split on the death penalty issue, and I can see how it would lead to the separatist idea. *As a Christian* I don't like the idea of writing someone off and taking them to the point where repentance is no longer possible. *As a citizen* (American, in my case) I believe the government has a responsibility to protect its people and punish wrongdoers. If not death, then what? Life in prison? Very expensive. Deportation? They'll come back. At any rate, one ought not to rejoice at the fall of another human - made, after all, in the image of God.MamaOlivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12917138266127672566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-37352406944927067562008-11-11T16:41:00.000-08:002008-11-11T16:41:00.000-08:00Well, I believe the death penalty is called for in...Well, I believe the death penalty is called for in the Old and New Testament. But I agree with you that we ought not rejoice in the death of our enemies. Never.Happy Elf Mom (Christine)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-58216016785482383722008-11-11T10:38:00.000-08:002008-11-11T10:38:00.000-08:00lol, Luke. I happen to really like ome of the *th...lol, Luke. I happen to really like ome of the *theatre of the absurd* & Ionesco is very funny imo.<BR/><BR/>I have no problem knowing how I should respond to evil people only with doing it. It is very hard to love evil people. People who are truely able to respond in this way amaze & humble me.[Corrie ten Boom was confronted with this one] As for the Bali bombers there are considerations of jihad & martydom That just plain would have made it more sensible not to execute them but maybe I'm just squeamish. Those poor deluded men thought they were headed to martyr's heaven with 77 vestal virgins each or some such nonsence & I just don't want to be responsible for condemning anyone to hell. The outpouring of hatred here worries me. I consider it a soul destroying emotion.<BR/><BR/>Moly, happy to oblige :DGaneidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17476109171650258810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-46264630997769273672008-11-11T08:44:00.000-08:002008-11-11T08:44:00.000-08:00I've heard that one twelfth of the entire world's ...I've heard that one twelfth of the entire world's population (of all time) is alive in India right now. Pretty crazy.<BR/><BR/>The quote of the little boy certainly points out the struggle of the death penalty: We want people to become good, but there are evil people who remain evil until the day they die. How do we respond to that? What do we do with people until--if ever--they become "really, really good"?<BR/><BR/>This is, in essence, the central question of one of my favorite movies: The Mission--How should we respond to evil men when they threaten innocent people? Do we fight them, or trust God?<BR/><BR/>The movie is painfully inconclusive on this point. Well worth watching, in my opinion.<BR/><BR/> ~LukeLuke Holzmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799632321310461828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5562416362853862929.post-51426168691030739302008-11-11T01:02:00.000-08:002008-11-11T01:02:00.000-08:00to call for vengence, to rejoice at the death of s...<I>to call for vengence, to rejoice at the death of someone who hated us enough to kill us, to acquienence to the death penalty, well, that makes us as bad as them.</I><BR/><BR/>Makes perfect sense to me. <BR/><BR/><I>A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.</I><BR/><BR/>*falls heads over heels* ..LOVE this quote. Love love love!molytailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00998928076467405984noreply@blogger.com