Thank you for your viewpoint. It is one that I am considering. Do you believe in God? I think of Ted Bundy.
No Death Penalty. What Is Your Position?
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Thank you for your viewpoint. It is one that I am considering. Do you believe in God? I think of Ted Bundy.
Yes, I DO believe in God ... though I haven’t been a Christian for very long. There are notorious killers who have claimed they were saved while serving their prison sentence. Susan Atkins comes to mind. Her book “Child of Satan, Child of God” was rather convincing. Same thing with Tex Watson. They both claim salvation .... and still deserved the death penalty.
There are things of which I deserve the death penalty, in a self-appraisal. I do not know if others just don't know or if I get away with extenuating circumstances. I am forgiven by my victims. I believe myself to be forgiven by God. I do not know if I should be dead on your view. I have broken God's Law.
:think: My view is that the death penalty should be reserved for a special kind of criminal. Rapists. Murderers. Child molesters.
I abused my sister sexually as a child. I was the responsible party. I have never had sex.
I may have killed Osama Bin Laden, supposing him to be a murderer.
So I am guilty of all three of these.
What is your definition of a criminal?
A person who has committed a crime. Literally.
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Were you a navy seal in 2011?
What is your definition of crime?
No. But my internet message whatever it was, was at the same time. Then Obama claimed he did it all by himself. To interpret that.
Actions that are against the law.
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you have to specify civil law when talking to Jacob
When Joe Biden announced what happened on the radio I turned it off because my story had not yet been heard. If Bin Laden was a murderer, I had wanted my hand in against him. What I did was like what he did, except he was the murderer from a distance, if he truly was responsible for it. It had to go through the President.
There is Civil Law, according to the Torah. Clete and Judge Rightly say that not all sin is crime, but I know from Scripture that sin is lawlessness or transgression of the Law.
I agree with them on that point.
Okay. Do you see crime as action and sin as thought or action?
I am unaware of *thoughts* being illegal.
I'm against it because we know that we've executed the innocent. We have the capacity to incarcerate people for life. During that incarceration some of those innocent may be freed and some remedy applied. But once we take a man's life we cannot offer any remedy and cannot in any sense undo the injustice.
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