...why stealing once in an Islamic country is a bad idea.
...why stealing twice is a worse one.
Posted on 02/22/2007 4:59:51 PM PST by COEXERJ145
HUNTSVILLE — Texas death row inmate Newton Anderson has been executed.
The career burglar was sent to the Texas death chamber this evening for torturing and killing a retired couple during the break-in of their home eight years ago.
Anderson, 30, who said he began stealing from homes even before he was a teenager, had been out of prison only about four months after serving four years for burglary when he was arrested for the slayings of Frank Cobb, 71, and his 61-year-old wife, Bertha, at their rural home near Tyler in Smith County.
Anderson became the fifth Texas inmate executed this year and the first of four set to die over the next two weeks in the nation's most active capital punishment state.
About an hour before he was scheduled to die, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal that sought to delay the punishment. Anderson's attorneys had argued he was denied due process because of erroneous rulings in the trial court and overzealous prosecutors.
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Especially since you will one day stand before a God who says all as worthy of Hell as this criminal is.
Could easily have a couple of words substituted...
It always pays to be bound by muslim teachings and principles.
Especially since you will one day stand before Allah who says all as worthy of Hell as this criminal is.
and the meaning is the same.
If you don't believe as I then you are doomed to hell. Definitely religious elitism. Which man (not God) determines which of the many versions of the bible or which denomination follows the "real" Christian teachings and principles? To be a follower of the one true church you would have to be a catholic because Christ passed his church to Peter and eventually all of the other denominations became deniers of Peter's church and the true path. Now I would not deny them that schism because like them the religious path passed through Peter was changed by the hands, political leanings and writings of men.
One can believe in God and in Christ and his basic teachings without adhering to any denomination. Religious denominations and their individual beliefs are a product of man, not God.
Then there is... Then I guess you don't believe in the God of the Bible.
One does not have to be "Christian" to believe in God and one does not have to believe in the Bible which has been edited and rewritten by man (most recently an English King) in order to believe or adhere to the basic tenants of the Bible to believe in Christ. Denominations have become wrapped up in the literal truth of the words and work harder to defend the literal words which were written by man than the tenants and guidelines for human behavior that were inspired by God.
As for the now dead POS, rot in hell and I can say that without any guilt imposed by a particular denomination for not feeling "Christian" about the death of a man, no matter how terrible his deeds.
LOL !
No, it's not the same at all.
There is no Allah, but the God of the Bible and Gospel of Jesus Christ lives.
"Next!"
Yeah. We should emulate that barbarism. <./s>
Never said that we should, merely made an observation. Catch and release works well if you're working for the DNR and trying to manage the trout population in a local pond - less well if you're trying to deal with hardened criminals.
Kudos to Texas for making the world a better place.
The death penalty is not used much and the Left hates it because they say it doesn't work. What balderdash! The reason we can't get stats on this is because it is not tried enough. There are nearly 3-5 thousand (varied sources are not clear which I don't get) on Death Rows all over the 50 states. My guess is that if one executed every one of them ( after doing massive DNA tests) the crime rate would take a deep breath. Gangs would be put on hold. Our crime rates that are sneaking back up must be met with varied approaches. One is not, not to stop the death penalty from being put into action. Another reason never to put Dems in charge of state legislatures. Or courts for that matter.
"In Texas, we have the death penalty and we...USE IT!"
8 years? WOW! That is amazingly fast for this day and age of endless appeals, etc.
It's exactly the same premise. "Your God does not exist, the God I believe in is the only true god, therefore you are going to hell".
That is exactly the attitude that the islamocraps have except that they take it a few steps further by trying kill you for being a non-believer (of their beliefs).
This is the mindset that was behind the persecution of jews, and what drove the persecution of catholics and protestants depending on the denominational orientation of a country or it's rulers. The Puritans were driven from England and parts of Europe based on that attitude.
Again, denominations and cults(like islam) are a contrivance of man based on the ideas, politics and sometimes tribal leanings of man at various stages of history. To "organized" religions belief in God or in Christ are never enough; believe as we do or be damned.
Maybe. But I tend to place my hope in an emphatic statement made by the flesh-incarnated God of scripture and in his words, without force or murder as some "religions", he unapologetically and bluntly narrowed "the way" down to only one one-way avenue.
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Again, even the gospels were not directly written by Jesus Christ, they were laid down after the fact (after his death) and in multiple versions by his desciples (men) and others who were contemporary to him and who carried their own agendas, religious as well as political.
Out of all of the various scriptures and books only a few have made it into the new testament. Constantine was one of the first rulers who directed a compilation of the new testament by Eusebius and made determinations on which books and writings were to be included and which were not. The new testament has been revised and rewritten numerous times over the centuries at the direction of popes and kings.
Does that mean that the basic message of the old and new testament has no meaning? Certainly not, but the literal truth and sometimes the meaning of parts of the scriptures are long ago tainted by the hand of man.
That avenue is the belief that Christ came to earth as man and died to save us from our sins and that he will come again. Nowhere in that concept is there any mention of which of man's interpretations (doxology or denomination) of scripture we have to follow or be damned.
Belief in Christ and salvation has nothing to do with the dogmatic interpretations of the various denominations.
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