Because Jesus Was Executed We Too Should Be Able To Execute People.

[Skwim]

More cutting edge logic from an elected official.

"Wyoming had the chance to repeal the death penalty… and blew it.

The State House passed the repeal bill without a problem — a surprise given the House’s GOP majority. But when the bill reached the State Senate, despite a unanimous recommendation in support of it by the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was defeated 18-12.

What’s especially troubling is how one of those Republicans defended her vote to let the government execute people:

Sen. Lynn Hutchings, R-Cheyenne, argued that without the death penalty, Jesus Christ would not have been able to die to absolve the sins of mankind, and therefore capital punishment should be maintained.

“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me,” she said. “I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.”​

Jesus was executed and that worked out for everyone. Therefore, our government should get to kill people, too.

There’s that Christian “pro-life” logic we all cherish…
source

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Ah, ain't America grand.

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[Vouthon]

Talk about totally misunderstanding and taking the wrong meaning from a story.

We're supposed to sympathise with the guy who was executed, Jesus, and not the state authorities that executed him

 

[McBell]

So the only way for Jesus to die was execution?
He could not die any other way?

 

[fantome profane]

More cutting edge logic from an elected official.

"Wyoming had the chance to repeal the death penalty… and blew it.

The State House passed the repeal bill without a problem — a surprise given the House’s GOP majority. But when the bill reached the State Senate, despite a unanimous recommendation in support of it by the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was defeated 18-12.

What’s especially troubling is how one of those Republicans defended her vote to let the government execute people:

Sen. Lynn Hutchings, R-Cheyenne, argued that without the death penalty, Jesus Christ would not have been able to die to absolve the sins of mankind, and therefore capital punishment should be maintained.

“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me,” she said. “I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.”​

Jesus was executed and that worked out for everyone. Therefore, our government should get to kill people, too.

There’s that Christian “pro-life” logic we all cherish…
source
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Ah, ain't America grand.

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Are Christians all supposed to follow in Jesus’s footprints and get executed?

 

[Twilight Hue]

So the only way for Jesus to die was execution?
He could not die any other way?

It's especially bizzare when Christians say Christ is alive now. What is it? Dead or alive?

Maybe we can resurrect executed innocent criminals like the Bible says and let them go free.

 

[Skwim]

Are Christians all supposed to follow in Jesus’s footprints and get executed?

Using her sense of logic, why not?

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[youknowme]

I wonder how she would have voted if she had been an atheist.

 

[Father Heathen]

By that logic, because Jesus was also tortured we should loosen the laws against cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Altfish]

Killing people is always wrong

 

[Subduction Zone]

"Because Jesus Was Executed We Too Should Be Able To Execute People."

By that logic, because Jesus was also tortured we should loosen the laws against cruel and unusual punishment.

Both ideas sound to be pretty sound to me. It looks like I am going to have a busy weekend.

 

[Skwim]

"Because Jesus Was Executed We Too Should Be Able To Execute People."



Both ideas sound to be pretty sound to me. It looks like I am going to have a busy weekend.

You actually got an honest to god chuckle out of me.

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[Sanzbir]

Vaguely reminds me of Dante's idea that the Roman Empire was chosen by God to conquer the world because without them Jesus would not have been sentenced to crucifixion...

 

[Windwalker]

Sen. Lynn Hutchings, R-Cheyenne, argued that without the death penalty, Jesus Christ would not have been able to die to absolve the sins of mankind, and therefore capital punishment should be maintained.

“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me,” she said. “I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.”​

Jesus was executed and that worked out for everyone. Therefore, our government should get to kill people, too.

There’s that Christian “pro-life” logic we all cherish…
source​

Ah, ain't America grand.

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Oh holy crap. I seriously think this is the most, utterly insane mind I have heard in I can't remember. These so-called Christians are now pretty much just unashamed to show the world the true vomit hole of their minds that has been there all along. They seem now empowered by the current political climate to just speak whatever insanity lays underneath the fake smile they show everyone else. The truth shall be revealed, indeed. Wow. Just insane on every conceivable level.

 

[Subduction Zone]

You actually got an honest to god chuckle out of me.

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On a serious note I am against the death penalty. When I was younger I was for it, but I have seen that it can be abused, that if one makes an error there is no going back, and a proper lifetime in prison might be worse than the penalty itself. In my states prosecutors effectively negated it by using the death penalty as a tool to get Gary Ridgway to give information on the bodies of his victims. Once you let the worst serial killer in the states history an out it is all but impossible to justify its use on others.

 

[sun rise]

It's time to bring back crucifixion as a death penalty method. Nail them high. And all the rest of the ritual.

And of course Jesus said "hate the dirty, disease ridden stranger and build a wall between them and us..." and "Love thy neighbor but not if he's really different than you are".

 

[MonkeyFire]

I sense a disturbance in the force.

 

[stvdv]

“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me,” she said. “I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.”

Some Christians really got lost on their path

 

[youknowme]

“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty [...]​

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That actually sounds like an argument to end the death penalty.

 

[Skwim]

That actually sounds like an argument to end the death penalty.

Doesn't it, though.

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[Father Heathen]

Vaguely reminds me of Dante's idea that the Roman Empire was chosen by God to conquer the world because without them Jesus would not have been sentenced to crucifixion...

Also, would Jesus still have been crucified had Judas not betrayed him? Was Judas' betrayal essential for our salvation? Is Judas in Hell, and if so, doesn't that make his sacrifice far more ultimate than Jesus', whose was basically a three day nap?