To: Dr. Eckleburg
Do you call capital punishment "murder?" No, I do not.
I do call putting someone to death, not for their actions, but for their beliefs, murder. And a state which performs such murders I call tyrannous
750 posted on
09/14/2005 3:21:44 PM PDT by
SeaLion
("Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man" -- Thomas Paine)
To: SeaLion
I do call putting someone to death, not for their actions, but for their beliefs, murder. And a state which performs such murders I call tyrannous Then you have to call most of Europe, especially Spain and Italy, "murderous" and "tyrannous" for their likewise judgment that preaching anti-Trinitarianism was a state crime of the highest order.
When in Rome...
757 posted on
09/14/2005 3:40:51 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray)
To: SeaLion
I do call putting someone to death, not for their actions, but for their beliefs, murder. And a state which performs such murders I call tyrannous OUR country 'persecutes' someone, NOT for being a child molester, but for having child pornography on their computer.
879 posted on
09/15/2005 6:00:57 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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