A question to experienced freepers...

[Bushmaniac]

Hi. I was just wondering about something. I am from rural Oregon and most of the people I know here don't really tolerate questions, so, I figure this is a good place to ask. (I'm 17)

I am obviously against abortion, b/c why should a woman have the right to choose whether or not she can have a child. That's stupid, women should be seldom seen and never heard... that's what my dad says anyway.

But I am confused. It looks like to me that most Christians here (my home town) are for the death penalty, aka capital punishment. It doesn't seem right to me that humans don't have the right to take life, only God, when it comes to abortion. But when it comes to capital punishment, the state should have the right to kill without God's permission!? I don't understand, could somebody please help me out here?

Thanks in advance!

[ru4liberty]

Say goodnight, Bushmaniac.

[ru4liberty]

Ping

[xzins]

The difference is that the killed baby has not committed the crime of taking someone else's life.

[Bushmaniac]

But who decides that a crime, even murder, should be followed with another one? Isn't the pope against capital punishment?

[xzins]

BM, I base my opinion on the bible and not on human logic. There might be some who argue against capital punishment from the bible, but they have an unprovable argument. I believe the bible argument FOR capital punishment is MUCH stronger than the bible argument AGAINST capital punishment.

Are you a bible scholar? Do you consider every word to be God's Word?

[Cool Guy]

BM - Help is on the way.

J Rob - Clean up on aisle 1. Thanks.

[Bushmaniac]

Hmmmmmmmmmm... no, I am not a bible scholar, but I do think the NT is much more important in terms of understanding God's intentions than the OT. And if you make a case for Capital Punishment, you could then make a case for slavery, subjugation of women and the like. Should those things be ok too?

[Cool Guy]

Can you bring more rats over here to play with, next time you visit us?

[socal_parrot]

Hey...it's been fun. Next time, I'll buy.

[PaulJ]

And remember kids; you can't spell "Dumb" without the "DU"!

[MWS]

Lol...come on...the troll is on SEVERAL threads... zap him already!!!!!! :D

[xzins]

Those things were all changed in the New Testament. The power of civil government to use life/death to maintain civil order was not changed. (Romans 13)

[Jim Robinson]

Hey, fun is fun, but, so sorry. I think I hear your mother calling. Here's your hat and coat. Bye bye. Y'all come back and see us again sometime real soon.

[drstevej]

Too late, the dude is toast!

[xzins]

Looks like Jim put down the hammer, don't it?

Thank you for the "capital" plan for disrupters.

[Jim Robinson]

She should thank God daily that her mother doesn't believe the same as she does about birth control.

[xzins]

Woulda been hard to post if her mother had, wouldn't it? LOL.

But who knows (serious note) -- Maybe her mother did and her disruptive behavior is a result of someone who knows they're just "lucky" and not just "loved." (Sorry to get philosophical on you.)

[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, well, no telling what makes a liberal tick. They're all victims of something.

[drstevej]

liberals are ticks, sucking the life out of the body politic.