(October 26, 2016 at 11:23 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:(October 26, 2016 at 11:02 am)abaris Wrote: Entirely different discussion why atheists are for or against it. I oftenly stress that I have little in common with many atheists apart from not believing. And that's the crucial point. The one and only instance where not believing really has any kind of significance. We don't have any kind of scripture preaching love and frogiveness. We're also not, as I already said, a group, but individuals with our own personal set of values.
That's why it's apples and oranges if christians support capital punishment or atheists doing it. Christians have a rulebook and some of them are very vocal how much they care about life, forgiveness or that Jesus is love. If you go down that road, you better rise up to your own standards or be called a hypocrite.
Yes I understand that. Which is why I commented how I did. Because the original "As an atheist" part made it seem like because he is an atheist he is against the death penalty. Due to us all being very different in all other aspects that wording is bad.
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?
