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Moonman Mike wrote in message <363A4635.1393@erols.com>...

>John Roberts wrote:
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>> Moonman Mike wrote in message <3639142E.40BD@erols.com>...
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>> >Amazing how Right-Wing White Christian Republikans (or anyone)
>> >can be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty!
>>
>> Not that amazing, really.  Unborn children haven't done anything to
>> *deserve* the death penalty.
>
>Isn't "all life sacred"?


No - that's a fallacy commonly promoted by secular humanists in attempts to
muddy the waters of what is actually a pretty clear issue.

>You mean a District Attorney has a higher moral standing than God?


No, I mean that God's pretty specific about the death penalty in the
ordinances that follow the "ten commandments":

"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death" (Ex
21:12)

"If a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him
craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die."  (Ex
21:14)

"And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."
(Ex 21:15)

"And he who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his
possession, shall surely be put to death." (Ex 21:16)

"And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."
(Ex 21:17)

"If an ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has been
warned, yet he does not confine it, the ox shall be stoned and its owner
shall also be put to death." (Ex 21:29)

"If a thief is caught while breaking in, and is struck so that he dies,
there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account."

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live." (Ex 22:18)

"Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death." (Ex 22:19)

"He who sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be utterly
destroyed" (Ex 22:20)

"You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.  If you afflict him at all, and
if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; and my anger will be
kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become
widows and your children fatherless." (Ex 22:22-24)

Of course, I fully expect that someone will probably bring up the old "but
that's the Old Testament" argument in response, but the fact is that the Old
Testament law still applies, and the covenant of the New Testament only
applies to those who honestly and sincerely choose to enter into that
covenant relationship.  Even for them, it provides only forgiveness by God,
which is not a blanket immunity to punishment.