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the religious and capital punishment
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I would like to hear religious peoples attitude towards capital punishment.
State sanctioned execution is obviously a contentious and contraversial subject at the best of times but Im more interested in the religious aspect of it.
If you are religious, what crimes would warrent death? Are there 'crimes' that your holy books once sanctioned death for that are no longer applicable? Would society be better of if we (in the western world) followed your religious laws concerning capital punishment?
Thanks.
(obviously, thread open to non religious as well...)
State sanctioned execution is obviously a contentious and contraversial subject at the best of times but Im more interested in the religious aspect of it.
If you are religious, what crimes would warrent death? Are there 'crimes' that your holy books once sanctioned death for that are no longer applicable? Would society be better of if we (in the western world) followed your religious laws concerning capital punishment?
Thanks.
(obviously, thread open to non religious as well...)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As the 10 commandments are the greater authority coming as they do directly from god(allegedly) and not from his mouthpiece(jesus)do not specify any form of punishment and do decree that 'thou shalt not kill' then It seems obvious that capital punishment is forbidden under god's law. So killing(whatever that means) is forbidden to Jews and Christians.
Why are you couching your question in the past tense Nailit? Islam advocates capital punishment for religious reasons today - women stoned or beheaded for adultery, blasphemy in Pakistan, promoting another religion in Iran etc. Rather than posing the question as a rhetorical one to individuals who's cultures executed people in the past, shouldn't you be asking Muslims why their culture advocates and operates capital punishment for religious reasons today?
I only turn to the bible (metaphorically speaking as I don't own one having carelessly lost the gideon copy that I faithfully promised to read all the way through out of sheer gratitude for having been given it) for light amusement and to see if Sandy is being serious or manifesting another of his crises of faith ( that seem to occur ever more frequently).
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