(October 26, 2016 at 5:30 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How can any christian support the death penalty, does the bible not say something about "Thou shall NOT kill"??
They created themselves an opening already in the 4th century. For obvious reasons when you want to suck up to the Roman emperor. Before that even military service was despised and sanctioned with excommunication. That got revised also at Nicea, for the same obvious reasons.