Re: a code behind the bible
Bryan, agreed. Being stoned to death would be one of the worst ways to die, because unless a person gets knocked out or killed early on during the stoning they would be awake and conscious as everything from a tiny pebble to huge rocks would be hitting the person from all angles causing serious bruising, breaks, and cuts until the person faints, is knocked unconscious, or is killed. Its a cruel and inhuman way to die.
Although, stoning is bad a lot of the so-called more human ways of putting a person to death in the United States isn't much better. The electric chair has to be extremely painful, and I can't imagine the last few minutes of a person's life as thousands of volts of energy repeatedly shock a person to death. The gas chamber is even worse as a person has to breath poison gas which is apt to be quite painful and terrifying until the person dies. Some states use a firing squad where the prisoner is strapped into a chair while guys with guns take turn s shooting him or her. If all that isn't bad enough there is always the option of hanging someone by their neck until they are dead. If they are lucky they will break their neck in the process of falling and have a quick death. If not they will hang their until being strangled to death. No matter what way we devise to kill a person for their crimes against society they are all pretty cruel and goes against my code of human treatment of people. that is why I am personally against capital punishment, and if it has to be done at least reserve it for the worst offenders.
My problem with the bible is, particularly the old testament, that it makes no distinction between major and minor crimes or sins. If one looks through the book of Leviticus there are all kinds of capital offenses, and most of them aren't that serious according to today's standards. I can see someone wanting to put someone to death for murdering a small child which is something I would regard as a p retty serious crime, but I can't see killing two people for simply being gay. The issue of stoning someone to death for heresy especially bothers me since that is often subject to someone's opinion of what is and is not heresy and I wonder how many people were unjustly put to death for merely having a different opinion than the one performing the execution.
Of course, for Christians they claim that all of those laws, statutes, and ordnances were nailed to the cross so don't apply to modern society. Maybe so, but even if that is true it still gives one an insight into God's nature that is offensive to my humanist principles. Namely that we all have certain rights to have differing opinions, that punishment should not be worse than the crime one is accused of, and that a person's mental state of mind should be taken into consideration before carrying out such a harsh and cruel punishment. Yet, in the pages of the old testament we don't find an y kind of guide how to judge which crimes are truly deserving of death and which require a bit of mercy. The punishment is the same regardless of how major or minor the offense which makes the old testament law pretty inflexible.
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