No one is calling for the death penalty for anyone but murderers. (And a lot of liberals I know don't even want that.)
But that doesn't stop the lies.
Again, what's so bad about a nation led by God? It's almost funny how we've been inculcated with the unitarian notion that this is somehow a negative.
If it were possible that all the world became Christian, would that be a bad thing in your mind?
Great! I'm reassured. Now tell me which is false:
1) A church or congregation which does not accept the Mosaic Law has another god before them, and is thus guilty of idolatry.Is having a god other than the Mosaic Law's God not idolatry? Is idolatry punishable or non-punishable? If punishable, by what? Does Mosaic Law itself mention the topic?2) That would be punishable by death.
When He shows up in person I won't be in the way.
Speaking as an agnostic, it would depend on what exactly happened to all the agnostics.
This is certainly not a left wing source.
Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, ''sodomy or homosexuality,'' incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, ''unchastity before marriage.''
According to Gary North, women who have abortions should be publicly executed, ''along with those who advised them to abort their children.'' Rushdoony concludes: ''God's government prevails, and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them.'' Reconstructionists insist that ''the death penalty is the maximum, not necessarily the mandatory penalty.'' However, such judgments may depend less on Biblical Principles than on which faction gains power in the theocratic republic. The potential for bloodthirsty episodes on the order of the Salem witchcraft trials or the Spanish Inquisition is inadvertently revealed by Reconstructionist theologian Rev. Ray Sutton, who claims that the Reconstructed Biblical theocracies would be ''happy'' places, to which people would flock because ''capital punishment is one of the best evangelistic tools of a society.''
Gary deMar, leading Christian Reconstructionist writer, in his own words:
GONZALES: Oh, so what you are saying Gary, is, if you catch homosexuals in the act, then the Bible says to execute them.
DEMAR: The Bible lays forth the severest penalty, which would be capital punishment for two men who publicly engage in sodomy.
GONZALES: Does it say "publicly" in the Bible?
DEMAR: You've got to have at least two witnesses who would come forth and testify against the two people who had engaged in sodomy. The severest punishment would be capital punishment. It doesn't mean that has to be the punishment.
PORTEOUS: Now, there was a case a couple of years ago, and I believe it was Georgia....
DEMAR: It was Georgia.
PORTEOUS: Two men were seen by the police, because the police came in the house for a different reason, and saw them having sex, engaging in homosexual activity in bed.
DEMAR: Sodomy.
PORTEOUS: They were arrested. So you're saying that these two men, according to the Bible, could receive the death penalty?
DEMAR: Well...
PORTEOUS: Is that what you're saying?
DEMAR: First of all, remember, the Supreme Court upheld Georgia's law. Second, yes I agree that the Bible lays the death penalty for two men who are engaged in sodomy in public.
Because the nation won't be led by God. It will be led by men who claim to speak on behalf of the Almighty. Power corrupts, but when it's mixed with the belief that God is backing one up, then it becomes especially corrupting -- even more so if those in power begin believing their own press releases.
Again, what's so bad about a nation led by God?
Listening to Michael Medved? He just said that a few minutes before you posted.
Its not the Big Man so much as the A-holish minions claiming to carry out his will.
I guess that would mean no more of those little Jack-Chick style flyers would be thrust in my face when I am on the subway. Maybe youre on to something.
Well.........
There goes Mardi Gras!!!!