While Bergoglio reverses the Church's teaching on the just use of the death penalty, he's calling for the decriminalization of laws against sodomy.
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I must agree with father freakshow..
But for a different reason.
An illegitimate and corrupt government like ours has no moral authority to kill anyone.
Fr. James Martin must not know the difference between killing innocent babies, and killing a guilty man or woman. The unborn are innocent.
Fr. Martin should know that killing babies is wrong.
Following the law after a trial by judge and jury is really really not the same as killing the innocent for your convenience.
The church used to be big on executions, had that inquisition thing down.
This DEMON has said that politicians who support abortion should not be denied communion.
Killing innocent babies? Well, that’s between you and God. Killing brutal murderers? Wait a minute. No communion for you
Being a former Protestant I’ve had to struggle with my stance on the death penalty. One rationale is that Christ himself was accepting of capital punishment, although there’s no Bible verse to support that. I’ve always been anti-abortion, so that’s never been an issue. I tacitly go along with being anti-capital punishment, but frequently find myself advocating it for rhetorical purposes to essentially say a murderer should receive the most severe of punishments. Then again, I’m not upset when a murderer receives life in prison instead of the death sentence. That I consider a far worse punishment.
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Jesus to be denied communion for supporting the death penalty...
God declared capital punishment for certain offenses. God also commanded Israelites to execute other peoples, and in some cases, all of them and their animals. Its not like He was suddenly all wrong about it, and changed His mind.
Plenty of Demoxrats support the death penalty, including, last time I checked, President Biden. Why doesn’t he think Biden should be denied?
Does this mean pro-abortion should be denied Communion?
Supporting the death penalty is not a sin.
Unlike legalizing abortion which actually is.
"Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment - even to death. If one has committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is therefore in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill an enemy, I always thought so, ever since I became a Christian, and long before the war, and still think so now that we are a peace.”
“It is no good quoting, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes that commandment He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distinction in Hebrew. All killing is not murder any more that all sexual intercourse is adultery. When soldiers came to St. John the Baptist asking what to do, he never remotely suggested that they ought to leave the army: nor did Christ when he met a Roman sergeant-major - what they called a centurion. The idea of the knight - the Christian in arms for defense of a good cause - is one of the great Christian ideas."
The distinction in Hebrew is ratsach in the commandment “Thou shalt not Kill”, which corresponds to our understanding for most cases of first degree murder. In military and other settings the words muwth, harag, shamad, charam and shachath are used, which King James translations of kill, slay or destroy. Sorry about missing all the accent points, but Word has its limitations.