But Jesus said Love your enemies.Bless those who curse you ,
pray for those who persecute you, turn the other cheek.
a saying thats proven to be unpopular whenever someone tried to
apply it to christians themselves, everytime you see someone trying
to apply it chances are they'll say something like
"thats not what it means, you're trying to twist the
meaning"
same thing with the death penalty, only the affected knows what
it truly means. people are not saints when its not affecting them
they can say anything to sound noble.
the australians were fighting against death penalty and i
believe the recent case regarding the viet guy can still be
remembered. but when the bali bombing happened, it was the
australians who were asking for the death penalty, and their govt
strangely quiet when they were asked to plead for the bombers only
to speak up again when the spot light came to rest on their three
guys who were coming up next.
but there was one interesting case i read about in the 90s when
i was still in primary or sec school. an italian was murdered in
the middle east and the judge found him guilty and sentenced him to
death. but the catch was his family in italy has to be the ones to
carry out the sentence and the case ended with the man going free
because the family despite wanting death penalty would rather let
him off then do it themselves.
