“You can take your big tent back to DU, troll.”
We are not God. It is God’s place to judge people. We are not all-seeing and all-knowing, only God is.
If we find people guilty of human laws, then by all means we should punish them by incarceration - and it should be hard incarceration, full of manual labor in exchange for the bare necessities.
But murder is murder, and the commandments say that thou shalt not murder. We should not abort babies, nor should we murder those who have sinned. We are not God. Those are His judgments to make.
Your statement of “You can take your big tent back to DU, troll” shows how devoid of thought and conviction you truly are - you, sir, are the troll, because you want to dodge conversation and blindly attack, like Gollum in a darkened cave clutching your “precious” but empty golden ring.
Then why was the punishment for premeditated murder, the death penalty under God's own law? God said to send some back to Him, why would you say you do not know what God already commanded?
Big tent conservatives like you claim to be destroyed the party. Your moral gray area mentality is liberalism since you see no difference between the innocent and the guilty and other people pointed you to the bible passages that suggest the death penalty is acceptable. Now like I said, you just joined in October and you are in the wrong forum.
Another translation for the Greek word for "murder" is "take innocent life". How can anybody doubt that abortion takes an innocent life (thus breaking the 6th commandment) while capital punishment does not?