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Nowhere does God in the New Testament give man the authority to kill another man.
Why is it always this bullshit? God giving people the authority to kill one another, or not. Not everyone is Christian and laws shouldn’t be dictated by religion.
Just fucking say it’s wrong. Make that argument because once you bring religion into it, you’ve already lost. God says whatever the people following him want him to say. Every time.
Because religious people don’t think they are inherently good. And the fact that they need something like this to do the bare minimum required to be human, is quite telling.
They’ve grown up in a culture which literally says we are all wicked and only god can fix it. It not only excuses their own failings, but tells them to accept wickedness in others as a lapse in faith, not a moral failing. And that absence of faith is embracing wickedness. See: fucking everything.
The damage this causes will never be undone.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall God giving lots of authority to kill other people—even babies. It’s just you’re not supposed to kill your fellow Jews.
“Thou shalt not kill. Murder… but when you think about it religion has never really had a problem with murder.”
Yeah, these religious nuts want to complain about murder, maybe they should look to cleaning up their own house first.
Even if we take Christianity into account, narrowing on just New Testament is also a losing argument because everyone within it cherry picks both.
shieeeet if i was on death row, and i had a choice, i;d take the firing squad over lethal injection any day.
in case y’all didn’t know lethal injection is a cocktail of 3 different drugs that were never approved by any doctor, the whole “do no harm” bit. typically its a sedative, a paralytic, and a potassium shot to seal the deal. there have been cases where people are alive and but paralyzed for way too long while the potassium is slowly and agonizingly killing then
Getting shot by multiple people in the chest and stomach isn’t going to be any more painless.
still id rather get shot, and die of shock and blood-loss in under a minute then be paralyzed and in agony for a half hour. Lethal injection may look more humane, but appearances are deceiving, with a firing squad what you see is what you get, multiple rifle rounds turning your organs into slush.
Edit: 3 hours of them trying to administer the lethal injection https://www.the-sun.com/news/6015918/joe-nathan-james-jr-longest-lethal-injection/
It’s important people read the articles on this one as it’s doing the rounds. It was his choice, but also it’s important to know why it was his choice. I think that part is a much more alarming thing to know and understand.
I wish I could pin this.
“convicted of beating his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David and Gladys Larke, to death with a baseball bat in 2001”
Seems like a pretty typical murder, what elevated it to a death penalty case?
I think they should all be firing squad or hanging. Make them violent again. So people take notice of them.
People are downvoting you, seemingly not getting that you’re saying the deaths should be visceral not for the sake of spectacle, but so that people see and must confront how violent it really is and are thus hopefully repulsed by the practice… but you are also correct from the standpoint of minimizing the pain experienced by the person condemned to death.
This guy was dead 3 minutes after being shot.
A proper hanging that breaks the neck and does not kill you via strangulation kills you in under a minute, and its a far more simple procedure to calculate a proper drop height for a person than it is to administer lethal injection or electric shock in a way that actually minimizes suffering.
A guillotine is another very rapid and relatively painless way to die.
… Lethal injections are often poorly administered by unqualified idiots, and the cocktails they use often don’t render you unconscious… meaning you can be strapped in, physically paralyzed from one part of the cocktail, in excruciating pain for hours, but unable to express the pain.
The electric chair is also a horrifically painful way to die, it still to this day often requires multiple shocks to fully kill someone, over a long duration of time.
In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.
