"By executing Brad Sigmon, South Carolina has also executed the possibility of redemption," said one critic. "Our state is declaring that no matter what you do to make up for your wrongdoing, we reserve the right to kill you."
Nowhere does God in the New Testament give man the authority to kill another man.
Why is it always this bullshit? God giving people the authority to kill one another, or not. Not everyone is Christian and laws shouldn’t be dictated by religion.
Just fucking say it’s wrong. Make that argument because once you bring religion into it, you’ve already lost. God says whatever the people following him want him to say. Every time.
Because religious people don’t think they are inherently good. And the fact that they need something like this to do the bare minimum required to be human, is quite telling.
They’ve grown up in a culture which literally says we are all wicked and only god can fix it. It not only excuses their own failings, but tells them to accept wickedness in others as a lapse in faith, not a moral failing. And that absence of faith is embracing wickedness. See: fucking everything.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall God giving lots of authority to kill other people—even babies. It’s just you’re not supposed to kill your fellow Jews.
Why is it always this bullshit? God giving people the authority to kill one another, or not. Not everyone is Christian and laws shouldn’t be dictated by religion.
Just fucking say it’s wrong. Make that argument because once you bring religion into it, you’ve already lost. God says whatever the people following him want him to say. Every time.
Because religious people don’t think they are inherently good. And the fact that they need something like this to do the bare minimum required to be human, is quite telling.
They’ve grown up in a culture which literally says we are all wicked and only god can fix it. It not only excuses their own failings, but tells them to accept wickedness in others as a lapse in faith, not a moral failing. And that absence of faith is embracing wickedness. See: fucking everything.
The damage this causes will never be undone.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall God giving lots of authority to kill other people—even babies. It’s just you’re not supposed to kill your fellow Jews.
“Thou shalt not kill. Murder… but when you think about it religion has never really had a problem with murder.”
Yeah, these religious nuts want to complain about murder, maybe they should look to cleaning up their own house first.
Even if we take Christianity into account, narrowing on just New Testament is also a losing argument because everyone within it cherry picks both.