Is it because we are all sinful, especially the flesh?
You're talking about Catholics, I assume. All the high church Anglicans, Episcopalians and Lutherans I know are not advocates of corporal punishment.
Is it because we are all sinful, especially the flesh?
Christianity is about love, understanding, forgiveness, and all that is good. With that being said, it's not easy being a Christian when we live in an imperfect world. Jesus could forgive all because he was perfect. We are flawed humans and are incapable of perfection.
You're talking about Catholics, I assume. All the high church Anglicans, Episcopalians and Lutherans I know are not advocates of corporal punishment.
I know a lot of Protestant Christians who believe in the death penalty. I just shake my head...and walk away in disbelief.
Here's what I ask Christians who advocate the death penalty? Would you be able to administer the lethal injection? If you have any doubts, then you need to rethink your stance.
Christianity is not, for the most, about love and understanding. Acting in accordance with the sacred heart of Jesus is to be counter-Christian.![]()
You're talking about Catholics, I assume. All the high church Anglicans, Episcopalians and Lutherans I know are not advocates of corporal punishment.
I advocate the death penalty but I don't take it lightly. It's for the worst of the worst. The people who have killed and showed no respect for human life. I believe in our system of "innocent until proven guilty", even though it's hard at times, and I also believe in giving an accused person DNA tests and whatever is needed to prove his/her innocence. I would not be able to administer the lethal injection as it's not my job to do it. But if it were a loved one of mine who was murdered by a monster, and I was asked, I just might be able to do it.
Christianity is about love, understanding, forgiveness, and all that is good. With that being said, it's not easy being a Christian when we live in an imperfect world. Jesus could forgive all because he was perfect. We are flawed humans and are incapable of perfection.
We saved your ass at the Alamo.
I wasn't refering to capital punishment, rather corporal punishment, as described by Dragonfly.
I was wondering if there is some connection between some churches and a sado masochistic penchant for punishment, giving and receiving. There is a branch of the catholic church in which members routinely cause themselves pain and distress.
Why do those meting out the punishment get off as in dragonfly's experience and do some of the victims end up needing physical punishment for absolution?
You realize, of course, that Santa Anna's forces overran the Alamo and killed everyone in the fort, right? Since nobody's ass was saved, you've chosen a convoluted means of stating that you did nothing...which, while technically accurate, is utterly meaningless. Then again, that's pretty much par for the course. Carry on.
Some people quote from wikipedia - others write it.
Unfortunately neither make the comments intrinsically correct though.
But Jesus was a human. That's quite the conundrum/laughably bad justification you've got there.