Posted on 12/13/2004 5:04:17 PM PST by BJungNan
What will death row be like for Peterson?
A considerable amount of mail flows into my cell from people out there in the world asking what it's really like living day-to-day on San Quentin's Death Row. I'm always tempted to quip, its's a hell f a lot better than dying here. But then I really don't know if that's true -- yet.
I answer every letter even if the writer is rapidly pro-death penalty. It's easy for me to understand their attraction to the concept of killing convicted murderers. In the abstract, the death penalty has an elegant Newtonian -- for every action there is an opposite reaction -- symmetry that easy harmonizes with the Old Testament -- eye for an eye -- overtone which strikes a reassuring resonance within a majority of citizens.
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One of the great things about God.
He is a God of Justice.
At the same time, He is a God of Grace.
One does not cancel out the other.
Jesus also said:
Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
The Bible does not teach pacifism. It teaches us not to take personal revenge for personal insults. The "smiting" or "striking" on the cheek referred to a slap with the open hand. It does not mean we should refuse to defend ourselves, our family or our country from those would destroy them.
Don't take one verse out of context ignoring what the rest of Scripture says on a subject.
The same Jesus you quoted also said:
Luk 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Does this person sound like a pacifist to you:
Joh 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
Joh 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
Joh 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Joh 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
Joh 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Don't be like the man who chose his daily Bible verse to read and to live by each day by opening the Bible at random and letting his finger fall on a verse without looking at it first.
One day his finger randomly landed on the verse which said:
"And Judas went out and hanged himself."
Not satisfied he tried his random method for a better verse to live by that day and landed on the one that said:
"Go thou and do likewise."
He decided to try one more time for a better verse and landed on this one:
"Whatsoever thou doest, do quickly."
Oh, brother! What a pant load...
You are a confrontational, atheistic, jackass undeserving of a civil response.
I'm not against the death penalty completely. But I just think there needs to be a little more hard evidence linking him with the murder that's all.
I did. It's all about scotty. I can not imagine not being happy about a new grandbaby. We have two - one year old girl and two year old boy. I would give my life for either of them.
Well, I'm not a catholic myself. However, I am greatly amused that you believe yourself to be a greater authority on catholicism than the pope himself. I wonder what the Catholics on FR think about that?
In fact it's this Pope who considers himself, in that way, the greater authority on such matters even derived from dogma, and those categorically rejected, by every Pope prior to himself and Paul VI. Let's get that straight. If he's the authority on ecumenism, say, he and Paul VI, then that's a pretty damned small church, and one without much of a history at all. On the other hand - he could simply be wrong, about most everything he says from the UN to ecumenism, to his recent rewrite of the Holy Rosary.
How did he rewrite the Rosary? (If you want to respond, you could do it by freepmail if you want since it's way offtopic.)
How did he rewrite the Rosary? (If you want to respond, you could do it by freepmail if you want since it's way offtopic.)
>>Too many innocent people have been put to death<<
Name one.
Oh come on, you keep up with the news as well as anyone else. Don't tell me you have not happened across a news story about someone being released from death row after having been found innocent.
I asked you to name someone innocent who has been executed, not someone released from death row. It isn't my burden to research and disprove your argument.
The releases don't always prove innocence. It could be there just isn't enough evidence after 15 years to convict and the charges are dropped.
Forced people to add five useless additional Mysteries, invalidating the whole - which is only 15.
I remember when the really bad Gov. of Illinois left office (poor brain can't remember his name although I'd recognize it), and he left under a shadow IIRC, he pardoned a whole bunch of men on death row, because there were some kinds of legal discrepancies, not because there was any doubt about their guilt.
A lot of times when people who have been sentenced to death for capital crimes are pardoned (from execution, not prison) it's not because they were innocent, but that the wretched legal system had a little string untied or a cop didn't sign something in triplicate.
I know the legal system is ****ed in many many ways. People who are innocent go to jail (I know of two) and people who should have been removed from the planet are walking around causing mayhem.
Can people just do it the old way? Is there a website you can direct me to so I will understand the Rosary better?
I might join you if you tell me what you would trade it for.
The Holy Rosary? People do. Go to any Latin Mass, in a traditionalist parish, and that's what the faithful will pray in the public Rosaries, maybe before Mass. Fifteen decades, concentrating on the Mysteries, and even that for each Ave. But the point was that this twenty decade 'rosary' from the Pope's, RVM document, was SUDDENLY imposed on ignorant, uncatechized 'reform catholics', some of whom still sincerely prayed the Rosary, even occasionally publicly together in the 'worthship hall'. But without knowing any better, or now being forced by the group leader!, they pray the new, instead, as if there were something wrong with the old Rosary to which countless miracles are attributed. The 'catholic', so-called, websites jumped on this new thing within WEEKS. One, in particular, simply posted it as if it had always been. No mention of the 15 decade Rosary. It was as if the great battles, the great Saints, had Luminosities on their minds instead of that Marian Psalter given by holy inspiration.
Thanks for the explanation. But (pardon my ignorance) what are Luminosities?
I will quit asking questions after this one!
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