The Death Penalty is Being Propped Up By “Pro-Life” Christians, Says Activist

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http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/07/the-death-penalty-is-being-propped-up-by-pro-life-christians-says-activist

Shane Claiborne, a progressive Christian activist, has an excellent article about how the death penalty is being propped up by conservative Christians. (It’s based on his book about the same topic.)
The very people who declare themselves to be “pro-life,” he writes, are also the people longing for the ability to execute people.
This is true, even as Pope Francis changes the official rules of the Catholic Church to take capital punishment off the table in all cases. But his declaration, and all the research in the world showing the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, won’t change the minds of the people who are supposed to be turning the other cheek.

… Eighty-five percent of executions in the past 40 years have taken place in the Bible Belt. This means the Bible Belt is the death belt in America.
Wherever Christians are most concentrated in America is where the most executions have taken place.
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Ah....that good old xtian love. Cue "No true xtian" fallacy.

 

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I'm guessing that there will be a whataboutism regarding abortion arriving at this thread...