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What is your religion and how much does your faith determine your view of the death penalty?
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Catholic ............ 100%What is your religion and how much does your faith determine your view of the death penalty?
That seems uncalled for. No?Mr_Spinkles said:The Catholic Church is definitely against the death penalty, as it does not respect the dignity of life. (Thanks, theology class!)
Maize said:What is the Catholic stance on the death penalty, Scott?
Laws are based on morality, but morality is based on religion (God).Fra.Morelia said:The death penalty is a legal issue, and unfortunately theology always seems to get sucked into it. Laws should be based on morality, not religion.
What of the morality of Confucius, of the Buddhist, of the Taoist?SOGFPP said:Laws are based on morality, but morality is based on religion (God).
338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. The world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time begun.What of the morality of Confucius, of the Buddhist, of the Taoist?
Although I love a good "chicken vs. egg" argument from our good pal Socrates, moral law, and natural law are absolutes, not notions of good or evil "invented" in the mind of man.Also (to paraphrase Socrates), is an action moral because God approves, or does God approve because it is moral?
Feel free to give credit to whatever you please. I'm please to see you acknowledge the morality of nontheistic systems/philosophies. My concern is that, while the Jew will grant the righteous Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist a place in heaven, the fundamentalist Christian will assign the same people to hell.SOGFPP said:Hiya Deut.
338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. The world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time begun.
That goes for the group you listed above, IMO.....