There are a spectrum of crimes along a scale of severity. So also, there should be a spectrum of CONDIGN punishments. (The word means "truly appropriate.") But not everything can be "treason" and "death." Or nothing will be treason and death. Indiscriminate death sentences will revulse the public, who will rightly see it as another Jacobin Committee of Public Safety---which would thereby delegitimize the whole MAGA movement.
Don't sneer at what a sentence of imprisonment can mean for someone in the latter half of their life. Unless you've done it and can tell the tale. Solitary confinement can be hell. Release into a federal reservation in the hinterlands of Alaska could be a challenge. Or extradition to a foreign prison system (such as Zambia's), where the conditions are "not nice," nor are the guards. Fees for damages can be imposed that will pauperize the convict, or put them into lifelong debt. Is that fun to live with?
I don't know how we can expectantly chortle over "Suicide Weekend" following the guilty's mere exposure, and then think that prison will have no terrors for them. All punishment is punishment of a person's humanity, so if we do not keep in mind they are still human beings, no punishment will seem to be enough, and we go overboard into a madness of torture and immolation.
I agree with your sentiment, but our humanism, morals and Christian charity has been weaponised against us. This is why the White Christian Western Civilisation is in the state it is in.
We are giving “human rights” to people that would murder us in a heartbeat. We are enabling a fifth column of Marxist infiltrate every institution and rot it from within.
Though I agree where we are, I think of it differently. To say that our humanism, morals and Christian charity have "been weaponized against us," is to suggest someone has taken what is ours and done something to it. But as it always has been ours, the real problem is that we have become faithless in the name of a false virtue. Jordan Peterson makes a very good point in his discussion of the "meek inheriting the Earth." He points out that "meek" does not mean "weak." It means a man of deadly strength who chooses to live in peace. Frankly, our clergy have surrendered us to the non-Christian notion that we should all be weak and powerless. This is not the injunction. I believe it was when Christ had his final words with his apostles that he advised them to sell their cloaks and buy swords. You don't buy a sword at the command of Christ unless you will have a righteous reason to use it. When I attend church, there is commonly reference to the "Church Militant," struggling against death and the Devil. My criticism is that there is no "Church Militant"---only a "Church Complacent" that does not wish to challenge the secular atheist and pagan culture to its face. We all huddle complacently inside our churches, as though God is to be found only there---when God is at our elbow ever second of our existence outside the doors of the church.
So, nothing has been weaponized against us. Our churches have preached weakness and abnegation in place of courage and outspokenness. We have willingly thrown our own weapons away.
Another lesson is found in the account of the last days of King David, when he summoned his son, Solomon, to his deathbed and enjoined him to perform final justice on his enemies from the civil war with King Saul. There were those enemies he suffered to live...so long as he lived. The time was up, and King David named the names of those whom he enjoined Solomon to "fall upon." It was a meaningful passage to me for reasons of circumstance, but it had an eerie resonance to a scene that might have been from "The Godfather." And that's what Solomon did: carry out final justice on his father's mortal enemies, who could not be allowed freedom in life now that King David was no longer there to restrain them. So, while we should strive only to apply condign punishments, sometimes those include a sentence of death. But not as a blanket rule. And not as something we eagerly lust to perform. We are not to abandon our own humanity, for it is a rejection of God should we do so. Obedience to God far outweighs our lust.
There are a spectrum of crimes along a scale of severity. So also, there should be a spectrum of CONDIGN punishments. (The word means "truly appropriate.") But not everything can be "treason" and "death." Or nothing will be treason and death. Indiscriminate death sentences will revulse the public, who will rightly see it as another Jacobin Committee of Public Safety---which would thereby delegitimize the whole MAGA movement.
Don't sneer at what a sentence of imprisonment can mean for someone in the latter half of their life. Unless you've done it and can tell the tale. Solitary confinement can be hell. Release into a federal reservation in the hinterlands of Alaska could be a challenge. Or extradition to a foreign prison system (such as Zambia's), where the conditions are "not nice," nor are the guards. Fees for damages can be imposed that will pauperize the convict, or put them into lifelong debt. Is that fun to live with?
I don't know how we can expectantly chortle over "Suicide Weekend" following the guilty's mere exposure, and then think that prison will have no terrors for them. All punishment is punishment of a person's humanity, so if we do not keep in mind they are still human beings, no punishment will seem to be enough, and we go overboard into a madness of torture and immolation.
I agree with your sentiment, but our humanism, morals and Christian charity has been weaponised against us. This is why the White Christian Western Civilisation is in the state it is in.
We are giving “human rights” to people that would murder us in a heartbeat. We are enabling a fifth column of Marxist infiltrate every institution and rot it from within.
We need a complete purge at every level.
Though I agree where we are, I think of it differently. To say that our humanism, morals and Christian charity have "been weaponized against us," is to suggest someone has taken what is ours and done something to it. But as it always has been ours, the real problem is that we have become faithless in the name of a false virtue. Jordan Peterson makes a very good point in his discussion of the "meek inheriting the Earth." He points out that "meek" does not mean "weak." It means a man of deadly strength who chooses to live in peace. Frankly, our clergy have surrendered us to the non-Christian notion that we should all be weak and powerless. This is not the injunction. I believe it was when Christ had his final words with his apostles that he advised them to sell their cloaks and buy swords. You don't buy a sword at the command of Christ unless you will have a righteous reason to use it. When I attend church, there is commonly reference to the "Church Militant," struggling against death and the Devil. My criticism is that there is no "Church Militant"---only a "Church Complacent" that does not wish to challenge the secular atheist and pagan culture to its face. We all huddle complacently inside our churches, as though God is to be found only there---when God is at our elbow ever second of our existence outside the doors of the church.
So, nothing has been weaponized against us. Our churches have preached weakness and abnegation in place of courage and outspokenness. We have willingly thrown our own weapons away.
Another lesson is found in the account of the last days of King David, when he summoned his son, Solomon, to his deathbed and enjoined him to perform final justice on his enemies from the civil war with King Saul. There were those enemies he suffered to live...so long as he lived. The time was up, and King David named the names of those whom he enjoined Solomon to "fall upon." It was a meaningful passage to me for reasons of circumstance, but it had an eerie resonance to a scene that might have been from "The Godfather." And that's what Solomon did: carry out final justice on his father's mortal enemies, who could not be allowed freedom in life now that King David was no longer there to restrain them. So, while we should strive only to apply condign punishments, sometimes those include a sentence of death. But not as a blanket rule. And not as something we eagerly lust to perform. We are not to abandon our own humanity, for it is a rejection of God should we do so. Obedience to God far outweighs our lust.