OK, so a compromise was made?
In the meantime the actual God said do not seek your own vengeance. Romans 13 is there for a reason.
There’s a reason for this and it isn’t just liberal airy fairy.
Seek his own vengeance? Protecting your child is considered vengeance? Pretty sure that’s an instinctual desire to defend your loved ones. Besides, I am not going to judge his actions. The perp made it to the justice system alive, and the father’s relationship with God involves him and God.
“In the meantime the actual God said do not seek your own vengeance. Romans 13 is there for a reason.”
Vengeance is a bad road to head down, ever, but taking out a pervert isn’t strictly vengeance. Prevention of anymore of the soul searing damage they do to their victims is one consideration.
Not vigilante justice, for sure, but with regards to sentencing someone to death after a trial and conviction, that was fine. It’s all a question of not letting society become a place where everyone is their own self appointed judge, jury, and executioner.
He also said, “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”
Some states barely punish child molesters.