[Harmless Teddy Bear]

How do you feel about millstones?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Harmless Teddy and others:

I assume that by referencing "millstones," your referring to these words of Our Lord:

Matthew 18:6

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

I am not one who calls capital punishment murder, when justly applied, so if you see his hellbent creature's best fate to be prompt execution, I'll go for the millstone: it'd be quick.

But his real best fate would be repentance and a life of atonement, because it is written:

1 Timothy 2:3-4

This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

This is neither a pacifist nor an anti-death-penalty argument I'm making: it's what would befit his soul--- without our becoming torturers and imperiling our own.