Posted on 02/28/2023 4:57:20 PM PST by ebb tide
While Bergoglio reverses the Church's teaching on the just use of the death penalty, he's calling for the decriminalization of laws against sodomy.
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I must agree with father freakshow..
But for a different reason.
An illegitimate and corrupt government like ours has no moral authority to kill anyone.
Fr. James Martin must not know the difference between killing innocent babies, and killing a guilty man or woman. The unborn are innocent.
Fr. Martin should know that killing babies is wrong.
Following the law after a trial by judge and jury is really really not the same as killing the innocent for your convenience.
The church used to be big on executions, had that inquisition thing down.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This DEMON has said that politicians who support abortion should not be denied communion.
Killing innocent babies? Well, that’s between you and God. Killing brutal murderers? Wait a minute. No communion for you
Being a former Protestant I’ve had to struggle with my stance on the death penalty. One rationale is that Christ himself was accepting of capital punishment, although there’s no Bible verse to support that. I’ve always been anti-abortion, so that’s never been an issue. I tacitly go along with being anti-capital punishment, but frequently find myself advocating it for rhetorical purposes to essentially say a murderer should receive the most severe of punishments. Then again, I’m not upset when a murderer receives life in prison instead of the death sentence. That I consider a far worse punishment.
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Jesus to be denied communion for supporting the death penalty...
God declared capital punishment for certain offenses. God also commanded Israelites to execute other peoples, and in some cases, all of them and their animals. Its not like He was suddenly all wrong about it, and changed His mind.
Plenty of Demoxrats support the death penalty, including, last time I checked, President Biden. Why doesn’t he think Biden should be denied?
Does this mean pro-abortion should be denied Communion?
Civil authorities did that.
The Torah permits the death penalty for some offenses.
It’s that pesky New Testament thingy that gets in the way for Catholics.
Correct!
This freak show Martin oughtta be lit up at the stake!
Let’s be clear. Catholics do not forbid the death penalty.
Where does it say in the NT that capital punishment is wrong?
The issue in the Catholic Church is odd. Pope JP II put it in the Catachism and it was basically a new thing and then they had to re-write that section because it has never been a teaching of the Church that capital punishment is wrong.
They based on the necessity for CP being based on social self-defense, which they felt was covered by better prisons, but that is not the only basis for it and so I remain personally not against it, overall.
Biden definitely supports the death penalty (for innocent babies, that is).
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