Oy vey.
Let's talk about witch-burning. Let's say your "Christian" society allows the burning of witches for their beliefs and practices, based on the Biblical injunction that "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (Ex 22:18). But my version of "liberty" states that individuals are free to believe as they will, and that without life there is no liberty.
So society can burn witches at will, because that what God commands. But I think that's simply state- and Church-sanctioned murder.
What's your position? Who's right and who's wrong? Should witch-burning be banned or not?
Is that enough information to proceed, or is it not cartoonish enough?
Let's talk straw-man burning. This is a straw man and you know it. By the way, I'm against the death penalty.
I'm taking your argument first here. Here's your strawman: that I'm for a theocracy. I'm not. I'm perfectly fine with the Constitution as is.
All I need for this debate is this: there is a God. I cannot know his value on your life, or mine, and thus I cannot take your life or mine. My personal beliefs in the Christian faith are just that, personal. But the Judeo Christian respect for life came from just that--Judeo-Christianity.
It would be far more likely to see autos de fe in an atheistic society; no respect for life you see.