With just cause I wrote, "Well, I tremble to interject anything among all these experts..."
Thank you for those who contacted me by e-mail rather than prove me an idiot in public. However, I seem to have done a rather good job of it myself.
Better researchers than I have found references to "an eye for an eye..." in Exodus 21, Leviticu 24, Deuteronomy 19 and elsewhere in Matthew 5.
The good news is that in most cases, the eye for an eye concept was meant to limit punishment to something less than death.
(For example: If you put out the eye of my son, I could demand your son lose an eye.)
However, there are many references to taking a life because a life was taken; and many references can be used to support and to refute the death penalty.
No wonder the devout argue about religion even among themselves.
No wonder I've made it a policy NOT to discuss religion on TFL. It's simply to distracting (at best) and divisive (at worst) to our RKBA movement.
I hereby make two apologies: 1) for discussing religion and 2) for deviating from the matters at hand.
( Dennis slaps his own head for the vear.... )
(( Thanks, Tulsa.
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