[Retain Mike]

The Babylon Bee article was prompted by the many sources reporting Pope Leo as saying that someone against abortion but in favor of death penalty is not really pro-life. Such is the frustration with the dilemmas found in Christianity, where psychopathic murders should face harsh treatment and babies should be nurtured. Fortunately, for the Pope his costume gives him instant comfort and creditability to resolve any conflict found between Classical Christianity and his chosen philosophy.

Concerning the legitimacy of the death penalty, I like the statement C. S. Lewis made on the subject. He said, “"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. 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."

The Pope’s statement is certainly helpful in deflecting criticism about the Democrat Party position on abortion, which seems like a pagan sacrament required for membership. By a 220-210 margin, the House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, with only one Democrat voting in favor. So, with only one exception these Democrat legislators established a line of defense for abortion that included those born alive despite attempted abortion. According to the logic for voting against the below bill, an infant emerging from an abortion procedure, unlike those babies residing in intensive care units, was considered by Democrats as harmful medical waste, and not human. The personnel in attendance were not only absolved from any criticism in failing to provide care but instead were required to intervene to murder the baby. Read the bill to see if that is not the most reasonable interpretation.

H.R. 26: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr26/text?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=CC7BEBFFF32F48ADB9D0825ACEB90034

[rottndog]

Oh jeez...you had me for a few seconds there...LOL!

[Blue Highway]

The Bee got me again...

[fishtank]

The Bee… writing about what too many are scared to think.

[Beowulf9]

“isn’t there a story about death being the punishment for the Original Sin of Adam & Eve???? Must be a different God, one guesses. But isn’t that the point of Jesus performing miracles, raising Lazarus from the dead? and why Jesus’ resurrection is central dogma?”-—

[odawg]

“Such is the frustration with the dilemmas found in Christianity...”

No, there is no dilemma in Christianity over capital punishment. It was instituted by God in Genesis and mentioned by Paul in Romans.

[daniel1212]

requiring the death of a person who committed premeditate murder is pro-life, as the penalty corresponds to the value of life from the womb to the grave, which is only to be taken when one has taken the life of another or committed certain other fundamentally grievous moral offenses. Because life is so valuable, then the penalty for anti-life acts is that of losing one's life.

Which Biblically is normally via communal stoning, as befits the crime being against all, and manifests the cost of the crime, versus antiseptic execution by the state, or burdening society by supporting the murderer for decades, and reminding others that he is live, and could get out.

Of course, all should be exhorted to be born of God via by effectual penitent, heart-purifying, regenerating, justifying faith (Acts 10:43-47, 15:7-9; Titus 3:5)

THE DEATH PENALTY (capital punishment in the Bible)

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar. (Acts 25:11)