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The Death Penalty — Civic Purposes
Equal justice is still justice, moral pollution is still moral pollution, deterrence is still needed, nations still need God’s mercy. Continue reading
Posted in Rightly Dividing
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, deterrent, justice, punishment
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Condemnation, Why and for What?
The reason unbelievers go to Hell is not the sins they have committed. Continue reading
Super-Prison Coming
We torture victims by our cowardice in failing to carry justice through fully. Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts on the News
Tagged crime, death penalty, prison, punishment, restitution, retribution
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Punishment, Barbarism, the god of This World, and the Gospel
Matters of justice are not a mere political battle. They are about the nature of God and about the Gospel. Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts on the News
Tagged Anders Breivik, capital punishment, justice, punishment, Satan
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One of the Costs of Ignoring Sin Nature
The vast majority of individuals, no matter what their socio-economic background, do not have a rap sheet 50 items long. Even if most of a person’s crimes weren’t that “serious”, that kind of criminal record reveals a person’s total disregard for law and their fellow-man. The worst offenders are people who have chosen a life of evil, of theft, of violence, and no one is stopping them. There is nothing complicated about evil. It’s what people do if there is neither internal self-discipline nor external restraint to stop them. Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts on the News
Tagged crime, Dominic Casciani, evil, government, justice, Kenneth Clarke, punishment, riots
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