Maybe I used too many monkeys
Feb. 21st, 2006 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoWhile I'm thinking about it.
So there's a man in prison right now, sentenced to death. And, like many people sentenced to death, he has Found Jesus and Become a Better Person. And is asking not to be killed since he has Found Jesus.
I am opposed to the death penalty. This has no bearing upon my question.
Which is this: If somebody had Found Jesus, then wouldn't they (thinking that killing a person is a Bad Thing) feel that they deserved to be punished for it? And with the Bible calling for an eye for an eye, wouldn't they think that punishment should be death?
This doesn't confuse me as much as the question about people who want to charge doctors who perform abortions with murder but not the women who request the service. But it confuses me.
So there's a man in prison right now, sentenced to death. And, like many people sentenced to death, he has Found Jesus and Become a Better Person. And is asking not to be killed since he has Found Jesus.
I am opposed to the death penalty. This has no bearing upon my question.
Which is this: If somebody had Found Jesus, then wouldn't they (thinking that killing a person is a Bad Thing) feel that they deserved to be punished for it? And with the Bible calling for an eye for an eye, wouldn't they think that punishment should be death?
This doesn't confuse me as much as the question about people who want to charge doctors who perform abortions with murder but not the women who request the service. But it confuses me.
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Date: 2006-02-22 06:13 am (UTC)I'm sure some people on death row do suffer changes of heart. Staring your own mortality in the face has a wonderful knack for causing those. I'm also sure that there's yet to be one who announces "wow, I should die for what I did," without the ulterior motive of hoping that if they said that, the people might decide that obviously they were now entirely changed and couldn't possibly deserve execution. The whole thing is hypocrisy incarnate, as far as I'm concerned - have we ever heard of a campaign to get someone off death row because they'd suddenly seen the light and become a devout Hindu/Buddhist/Muslim/any other religion than Christianity?
...But, then, I'm a horrible, cynical heathen.
As for the abortion issue, the theory might be that while each woman only kills one baby, the doctors are killing lots. Besides, it'd be a lot of work to hunt down all the women from all different walks of life who have abortions, and people would probably get angry.