I'm a pacifist, I don't find any method of killing people to be acceptable. I believe we are created in the image of God and to kill another would be horrible. Thankfully I am not in the military or in a position where I have to be responsible for another person death. I do recognize though that being a pacifist isn't the way the world works but then again if sin never entered the world governments wouldn't need to execute people.
I believe we are created in the image of God and to kill another would be horrible.
Then you must have a hard time explaining all the killing of men, women, and children that God himself does in the Bible. It's an ocean of bloodshed that makes The Shining look like Mary Poppins.
Not really, like I said when sin entered the world everything changed. When God told the Israelites to go to war He gave every opportunity for the other nation to either submit or come to repentance. The Old Testament was vastly different than what is experienced in the New Testament it also led the way for the transition. A lot of those people, we will take the Flood for a good example Noah was making the ark the people of earth were so wicked and made the decision to turn away from God that God was going to wipe out everyone but Noah pleaded with God and He chose to save his family. All while this was happening up until the point where the sky opened up every single person had the opportunity to turn back from that sin and return to God to get on that Ark.
I think this in a way just highlights the problem. We need to stop being squeamish, and face reality. We will soon have a lot of hard choices to make. The idea that this will all end with zero bloodshed is naive.
Islam does things the way it does for a reason. Look at stoning. Not only does it cost nothing... large rocks are easy to find in most places, but it is public on top of forcing everyone to participate. If you don't throw a rock then people begin to believe you aren't a good Muslim. It accomplishes 5-6 things all at once.
Same thing with throwing people off buildings. Its very public. Its very brutal. It makes a huge mess. Everyone knows what happens if you break the rules. Plus its cheap etc.
Am I saying we should adopt their ways? No. I'm just saying we could learn some hard lessons from them. Our past isn't much different. Public hangings for cattle rustling is a good example. Rope is easy to find and cheap. So is gravity.
The fact that the left has convinced us that executing criminals is bad and unchristian etc has weakened us. Why is it pedos just seem to do whatever the hell they want these days world wide? Because if we publicly executed child rapists etc on TV... then they would fear the law. Instead they don't fear anything or anyone because there is no consequences to the things they do.
The left has set the stage for a world were crime pays.
When we start looking to islamists for methods of killing people, we've turned down a dark alley.
I'm a pacifist, I don't find any method of killing people to be acceptable. I believe we are created in the image of God and to kill another would be horrible. Thankfully I am not in the military or in a position where I have to be responsible for another person death. I do recognize though that being a pacifist isn't the way the world works but then again if sin never entered the world governments wouldn't need to execute people.
Then you must have a hard time explaining all the killing of men, women, and children that God himself does in the Bible. It's an ocean of bloodshed that makes The Shining look like Mary Poppins.
Not really, like I said when sin entered the world everything changed. When God told the Israelites to go to war He gave every opportunity for the other nation to either submit or come to repentance. The Old Testament was vastly different than what is experienced in the New Testament it also led the way for the transition. A lot of those people, we will take the Flood for a good example Noah was making the ark the people of earth were so wicked and made the decision to turn away from God that God was going to wipe out everyone but Noah pleaded with God and He chose to save his family. All while this was happening up until the point where the sky opened up every single person had the opportunity to turn back from that sin and return to God to get on that Ark.
I think this in a way just highlights the problem. We need to stop being squeamish, and face reality. We will soon have a lot of hard choices to make. The idea that this will all end with zero bloodshed is naive.
Islam does things the way it does for a reason. Look at stoning. Not only does it cost nothing... large rocks are easy to find in most places, but it is public on top of forcing everyone to participate. If you don't throw a rock then people begin to believe you aren't a good Muslim. It accomplishes 5-6 things all at once.
Same thing with throwing people off buildings. Its very public. Its very brutal. It makes a huge mess. Everyone knows what happens if you break the rules. Plus its cheap etc.
Am I saying we should adopt their ways? No. I'm just saying we could learn some hard lessons from them. Our past isn't much different. Public hangings for cattle rustling is a good example. Rope is easy to find and cheap. So is gravity.
The fact that the left has convinced us that executing criminals is bad and unchristian etc has weakened us. Why is it pedos just seem to do whatever the hell they want these days world wide? Because if we publicly executed child rapists etc on TV... then they would fear the law. Instead they don't fear anything or anyone because there is no consequences to the things they do.
The left has set the stage for a world were crime pays.