Maybe I used too many monkeys

[cyrano]

While 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.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten to mention that aspect.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

It's an important aspect of the issue.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

In some sects of Christianity, you have to be baptized to be saved. So if a child dies without being baptized, they could go to Hell. I am not trying to make a point, just tossing it out there.

And know you know, and knowledge is a tasty deal.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

I know of people that have been baptized on death row...

In the 90s Pope JP2 decided that dead infants in Africa were in heaven. Stillborn and miscarried babies go to heaven too. I'm guessing any church that took the position that babies that die in utero are hellbound would catch a lot of flack.