Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: I've tried to avoid directly attacking my own religion 9
Or even resorting to religious arguments at all here on Slashdot. It really isn't "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" at least as far as most people are concerned; morality clearly isn't a concern in cyberspace for 99.9999% of the internet (which explains porn).
Having said that, I'm doing catechism in a year, and today's study includes a pet peeve of mine.
Mainly because the war on this issue runs through my own head. I'm generally against the death penalty for completely pragmatic reasons- a man sentenced to heavy labor slavery at least will make some restitution for his crime, a man killed, won't.
Having said that, I'm at odds with Pope Francis on the issue.
Posted to the Catechism in a year group, but perhaps declined.
I struggle with day 293.
I struggle with the edits to today's reading, which has caused three revisions to the Catechism since 1992 as the Church also struggles with this teaching.
It has brought me into disagreement with the church, because advanced detainment techniques and technologies are neither worldwide nor wise in some areas.
I live in a county in Oregon where a cop killer was just arrested- part of his 5th arrest for giving drugs to and raping a 12 year old girl. It's pretty damn clear to me that justice is not being applied in his case. Though the death penalty is legal here it's been 30 years since anybody's been executed and the last 4 governors routinely pardon death row cases.
We routinely let violent criminals out of jail without rehabilitation.
Due to the violent nature of child sex abuse, I openly wondered if the most recent round of edits to the catechism were specifically to try to oppose death penalty laws in clerical abuse cases, as that has been as recently as the 1940s a common punishment for such cases.
It occurs to me that in at least some cases, where adequate detainment isn't available or where the due process laws fail to protect the public, paragraph 2267 is in direct violation of paragraph 2263-2264.
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Snuffing an alleged killer as an individual member of society is murder.
Carrying out capital punishment as an application of law, after a fair trial and all of the appeals, is a different matter.
While we very much should pray for their souls, there are some men that just need killin'.
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Double Blind studies show clearly that prayer works, just in surprising ways.
Having said that, I don't accept either Materialism or Calvinism when it comes to predestination.
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And there are always situations where due process, breaks down. That is the real problem that prevents protection of the innocent.
I really do like Finland's model- where even murderers have "life with parole" and the penitentiary includes voc rehab, community college, restitution, real penance, and an honest attempt at reform with an aim to reintegration.
But we don't have that in most of the world. Instead, we get either the death penalty, or a liberalized "let the criminals out to commit their crimes aga
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Your meaning of the word "faith" is flawed, and it's likely because you aren't aware of theology as a science.
There's no fantasy allowed in the Catholic Councilar Method, which created the scientific method. It's all strict observation based, actual objectivism.
The state doesn't deserve the power (Score:1)
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That is certainly the other half. But then can the state be trusted with the other side, to keep innocent life safe?