(October 25, 2016 at 8:40 pm)Jesster Wrote: I may disagree with the death penalty, but I also know plenty of atheists who support it. I don't necessarily see this as a religious point of view. There might be some hypocrisy in there though, and then you may have a point. Fundamentalists are also very nauseating with their reasoning.
And, in no way am I trying to diminish the horrific nature of this particular murders, but the mom's statement reminds me of the classic quote from the Albigensian Crusade, ""Kill them all and let God sort them out." It's much easier for Christian fundamentalist wackos to say that "Satan's servant" is being put to death and that person's consciousness will continue on in the 'afterlife' as opposed to acknowledging the fact that the condemned inmate is about to have his/her conscious existence annihilated out of existence. Certainly, in the South at least, there is this religious aspects and/or overtones to executions. Frankly, I could never kill another human, except, perhaps, in the heat of self-defense if I felt my life or that of my family threatened. In this case, at least, there was an alternative of life imprisonment without parole, but any pity that may be felt in execution chambers across the US can simply be written off as being "the Devil's work". It has all the superficiality of a Disney movie, absent the horrific fact that a human being is being put to death.
