{"id":3822,"date":"2019-04-24T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/absurdistan-the-cross-of-christ-is-supposed-to-be-an-argument-against-the-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:23:21","slug":"absurdistan-the-cross-of-christ-is-supposed-to-be-an-argument-against-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/absurdistan-the-cross-of-christ-is-supposed-to-be-an-argument-against-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurdistan: The Cross of Christ is Supposed to be an Argument against the Death Penalty!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a German correspondent I learned about the theology blog Nachtgedanken<\/a>, Night Thoughts<\/em>. I agree entirely with the current post<\/a> which begins:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"In der Karfreitagspredigt sagt Bischof Ulrich Neymeyr: "Der Justizirrtum, dem auch Jesus zum Opfer gefallen ist, ist eines der schlagkr\u00e4ftigen Argumente gegen die Todesstrafe". <\/strong>Tagespost<\/em> 19.4.2019.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Diese bisch\u00f6fliche Aussage evoziert eine Frage: Was w\u00e4re, wenn Pontius Pilatus dieser Justizirrtum <\/strong>nicht unterlaufen w\u00e4re? Jesus Christus w\u00e4re nicht gekreuzigt worden, er w\u00e4re so nicht f\u00fcr unsere S\u00fcnden gestorben und wir w\u00e4ren so Nichterl\u00f6ste. Wenn aber die an Jesus Christus vollstreckte Todestrafe<\/strong> uns erl\u00f6st hat, sie so also Gutes gewirkt hat, wie soll dann diese vollstreckte Todesstrafe<\/strong> gegen die Todesstrafe<\/strong> sprechen? <\/span><\/div>\n
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The stupidity of this 'bishop' beggars understanding.  He obviously does not understand the Christian narrative he is supposed to be articulating and promoting. Had Christ not been crucified, he would not have died for our sins, and we would not have been redeemed. It was God's will that Christ, the sinless one, suffer the death penalty. How then can the execution of Christ speak against the death penalty? <\/span><\/div>\n
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Quite apart from Christian teaching, anyone who is not morally obtuse should be able to see that the death penalty is precisely what justice demands in certain cases.   The punishment must fit the crime.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I explain the PFC principle here<\/a> and distinguish it from barbaric versions of lex talionis<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a German correspondent I learned about the theology blog Nachtgedanken, Night Thoughts. I agree entirely with the current post which begins: "In der Karfreitagspredigt sagt Bischof Ulrich Neymeyr: "Der Justizirrtum, dem auch Jesus zum Opfer gefallen ist, ist eines der schlagkr\u00e4ftigen Argumente gegen die Todesstrafe". Tagespost 19.4.2019.   Diese bisch\u00f6fliche Aussage evoziert eine Frage: … Continue reading “Absurdistan: The Cross of Christ is Supposed to be an Argument against the Death Penalty!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}