Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!! Archived Message
Posted by 3Dee on December 2, 2010, 6:13 pm, in reply to "Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!!"
I am against it outright, even if it were a member of my family, and I have added a stipulation in my documents that of sound body and mind, if someone kills me, I do not will that they receive the death penalty. I love my family very much, but I fail to see how the death penalty of anyone who would kill any member of my family would help them after the fact, or how it would help me as a survivor. I care immensely for the victims. So the perp gets the death penalty, it is of no solace to me. All it says is that more violence was done by the state. I believe in stopping the cycle of violence, personally. This is one issue where this centrist is likely on the fringes. None of my views on this are political though, they are purely religious views. So if I go into that realm, it's a different ballgame, and arguing theology is not soemthing I care to do. The reason why is arguing politics, we all have in common this one system governed by the Constitution. But if I argue the reasons why I have to oppose the death penalty, God enters the conversation. I love when God enters anything, as long as God is honored. But there is no one way of seeing God and we all have our own playbook as far as how we see the higher power. I simply believe that if my God is a God to whom nothing is beyond my God's forgiveness, then I have to believe that even a murderer or even a purveyor of genocide is not beyond the mercy of God. If I judge that someone is beyond the mercy of God then I believe that I am judging someone harsher than God would judge them. Only a higher power would know a person's heart and their ability for rehabilitation. I cannot in good conscience support the Death Penalty, even if someone killed me in a heinous manner or one of my loved ones. I do not believe that I can be 100% willing to enter into unity with God, if I cannot trust that my God's judgements are righteous and true. If indeed God's judgments are righteous and true, then I am not honoring God by judging in God's place. I do not have the privilege to say when life begins nor the authority to say when it ends. Thank God in Illinois, none of this immoral killing is being done in my name.
|
|