RE: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
October 27, 2016 at 7:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2016 at 7:30 pm by Jehanne.)
(October 27, 2016 at 6:46 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:(October 26, 2016 at 8:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I think that atheists should be against the death penalty. It's very cruel for any society to tell any human being that "at such and such a time, at such and such a place" you will "cease to exist"; if that's not cruelty, then what is?
Soooo because you and I both think god is fake I need to follow what you think about other things? That's not how atheism works hun.
I really don't care if you think it is cruel. I think it is justice. You kill someone and take a life then your life gets taken. Why should you live and the person you killed doesn't? You being 'sorry' doesn't bring them back.
I feel special!
Yes, that is not how atheism works. That's why my only "atheist outlet" is this board, nothing else. I come here for community, because I have no church to attend, and so, for me at least, I enjoy the "existential fellowship" that all of you bring!
Yes, an "eye for an eye", but I doubt that such was even practiced in Hammurabi's Day. In fact, the number of executions since the founding of Jamestown numbers under 15,500:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executio...-espy-file
And, if you look at the list carefully, some individuals were burned alive. Now, the number of homicides last year was 15,696:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/us/mur....html?_r=0
And, so, executing every murderer out there is probably not something that the US Justice System is prepared to do. In fact, with your "eye for an eye" perspective, you would be excluded from a capital jury (even in Texas) because of your refusal to consider mitigating versus aggravating evidence, which takes place during the penalty phase of a capital murder trial.
