Sentences with phrase «than the death penalty»

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the christian god andhet will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

All you have to do is be obdurate in rejecting the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty....

All you have to do is reject a belief in the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty....

All I have to do is have an reasonable, honest and rational disbelieve in the Christian god and it will impose a penalty on me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the Christian god and he will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

All I have to do is refuse to believe in the Christian god and it will impose a penalty on me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

You believe that your god will cause anyone who does not accept your Iron Age stories to suffer a penalty an infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that god «loves them».

You believe that your god will cause anyone who does not accept your Bronze Age stories to suffer a penalty an infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that god «loves them».

Because it focuses on a single case, Bloodsworth is more effective than The Death Penalty on Trial, which does not allow for the same depth of reader engagement.

Here Here, please explain how a punishment worse than the death penalty (needlessly at that, if the god is real and truly omnipotent) can reasonably be said to be a «light smack».

All I have to do is harbor an honest, reasonable and rational disbelieve in the Christian god and he will inflict a grotesque penalty on me a billion times worse than the death penalty — and he loves me.

If the insurance requirement is impossible to meet, then that is no different than a death penalty for that dog in most cases, and would be considered an inhumane and unjust outcome that wasn't anticipated by the legislators.

By an 8 to 4 vote, the Alabama jury recommended a sentence of life imprisonment without parole rather than the death penalty for the defendant.

No single aspect of the Court's jurisdiction receives more public notice than the death penalty cases.

Not exact matches

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Florida's death penalty law was in flux for more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the process in early 2016.

It explictly stated that anybody involved in that type of investigation, including the accuser and potential witnesses, are sworn to secrecy regarding any and all details, upon penalty of excommunication (a fate worse than death for the devout).

I hate prison even more than de death penalty.

We might question whether execution is always the most effective and fair means toward the end of protecting its citizens, and there may be many who misunderstand the purpose of the death penalty, construing it to be more than it really is.

The «narrative» of war is just as substantial, if not more so, than that of the death penalty.

That being the case, Death came the same day, before sundown, but someone / something other than Adam / Eve took the penalty.

The upshot of the pope's remarks is that the death penalty is «per se contrary to the Gospel» and it was «dictated by a mentality more legalistic than Christian.»

The abolition of the death penalty in formerly Christian countries may owe more to secular humanism than to deeper penetration into the gospel.

First, conservatives are made up mostly of the faithful and support the death penalty more than any other demographic.

My question is: If Jesus did not endure a period of separation from the Father, as the actual penalty for sin, than why else would he go through all that torture and shame, and death?

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

He then pointed out that the death penalty was illegal in his own nation — a position more liberal than even this American President would dare to take.

Morality is nothing more than a value judgment on a set of facts — eg. g should gay marriage be allowed, is the death penalty ever justified etc..

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religion is nothing else than politics and power, just in the original form prior to the advent of books... so given that in the US there still is the death penalty..

Once we get rid of the death penalty, then and only then can we truly say we've evolved further than places like Iran, not before.

America uses the death penalty for violent offenders and murderers... where Iran uses it for innocents and in all reality whoever they chose often without cause other than control.

Such blunt words in our society, which has outlawed the death penalty and corporal punishment, cause more than a frisson.

We should not assume that the death penalty must express a group's collective anger rather than a people's sense of justice.

We have lost far more than the legitimacy of the death penalty; we have lost the legitimacy of punishment, of public retribution.

It is hard to see, though, why this should be more true of the death penalty than of «locking them up for life.»

More than half strongly agree that the Bible is their highest authority (52 %) and that Jesus» death is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of sin (58 %).

We are forced to conclude that in some cases, the death penalty may contribute to rehabilitation rather than hinder it.

The stickiest point for most people is that not only was the doc.ument itself Top Secret for decades, it explictly stated that anybody involved in this type of investigation, including the accuser and potential witnesses, are sworn to secrecy regarding any and all details, upon penalty of excommunication (a fate worse than death for the devout).

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

Fear of punishment in some imagined afterlife isn't stopping people from behaving badly any more than imprisonment or a death penalty is stopping murderers from killing.

During the same year Parliament abolished the death penalty for picking pockets, but more than 200 crimes remained punishable by death.

on Gays... he said, «Well the «Scripture» says...» on the death penalty he got the phony smile and said... «Well other people know lots more than me... so I don't have an opinion»... The guy is completely hollow... I hope he helps the poor but I doubt it... he is a RIGHT WINGED Fundamentalist in T V «clothing»... he would be the first to show up at a town hanging and grin... and pass the hat...

By contrast, and when analysed by attendance, «frequent - attenders» (many of whom will, of course, be Anglicans) have been consistently and significantly more opposed to the death penalty over the last ten years than people who never attend a religious service.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

4th January 2018, Mirror: Tories branded «a breed apart» after more than half backed the return of death penalty