Well God bless you Greybeard. What is right is not often popular and depending on how innovative your idea is, it may threaten the status quo and the conventional wisdom of the day, which can make people very angry because you’ve challenged their mental and philosophical comfort zone. Historically it has even lead to death.
Mind if I add you to a list of those I sometimes copy on certain discussions and points of view that tend to be innovative?
I can’t throw the first stone either.
I'd be honored. I don't usually join in debate about the death penalty, it's an exercise in futility. I've yet to see anyone change their minds on the subject but I do feel somewhat obligated to let my stance be known from time to time, to totally ignore the issue would be a cowardly thing.
I've have had my conservatism and even my Christianity questioned because of that stance, as you have on this thread, usually by having Old Testament verses cited to me.
Thank God Jesus Christ freed me from Mosaic/Levitical law and I will continue to pray for everybody who still binds themselves to it.
If we are bound by one law, we are bound by all of them and quite frankly, at age 69, I'm not as old as Abraham was when he was circumcised but I sure wouldn't want to have it done now.
God bless you and yours and everyone on this thread, no matter what their opinion on the matter is.