Interesting on your 1st point Nap... I was talking with a local historian earlier who was telling me about a visit to the northern UK cotton mills by some US Slave owners, including George Washington he thinks. At the sight of the children forced to crawl under the looms to clear lint (that would often cause fatalities) they commented on how much better they treated their own slaves.
I'm not suggesting slavery is a good thing, and neither is the bible. It's making a point that all people should be treated humanely, and always as having the potential to have remorse and accept forgiveness. Our laws reflect this biblical position, and in our society we champion those standards as being 'civilized'.
Prisoners prefer to be inside because we adopt biblical standards of forgiveness in our penal systems. I don't think it quite works because secular society doesn't work to religious moral standards. Hence the mismatch between public opinion and judicial rulings.
I'm not suggesting slavery is a good thing, and neither is the bible. It's making a point that all people should be treated humanely, and always as having the potential to have remorse and accept forgiveness. Our laws reflect this biblical position, and in our society we champion those standards as being 'civilized'.
Prisoners prefer to be inside because we adopt biblical standards of forgiveness in our penal systems. I don't think it quite works because secular society doesn't work to religious moral standards. Hence the mismatch between public opinion and judicial rulings.
