[OmqMZtkv]

For whatever is worth, I agree with the Consistent Ethic of Life, a term coined in 1983 by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, based on the premise that all human life (as Bernardin defined it) was sacred and should be protected by law. The ideology opposes legal abortion, capital punishment, assisted suicide, economic injustice, and euthanasia.

[ButKnillinoi]

Why yes, yes it does.

[OmqMZtkv]

What is it?

[biannaruh]

Angelos, you may wish to look at the document I linked to in another thread you started, the one where you asked what the Orthodox Church's position was on matters such as abortion, etc.

[OmqMZtkv]

I will, thank you Olga

[KeestRast]

+1! Ibelieve that the criminal should be given a chance to repent. The death penalty prevents that. The wise thief might have been able to do more good if he was not executed.

[ButKnillinoi]

To the contrary, facing a death penalty seems like a very powerful motivation to repent. Facing the death penalty might be the very thing that makes a person repentant.

Not sure what you are saying about the good thief. He repented on the cross. He was saved on the cross. What he might have been able to accomplish otherwise is a fool's debate. He might not have repented at all had he not been on the cross.

It was a death sentence that served as the vehicle by which salvation happens.

[Preegovesem]

Do Americans not wonder about the fact that 139 countries abolished the death penalty and it alone of all western countries, and of a large number of non-western countries, uses the death penalty?