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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:34 PM
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A"culture of life" that embraces the death penalty?
A President who as governor executed more people than any other governor, signing a bill to interfere with the private, legal, medical decisions of a family.

What am I missing?
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:35 PM
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1. yea, exactly!
Shrub likes to play God. Well, God talks to him, and tells him to go to war, why not in this case?
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:36 PM
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2. Oh stop it!
You know they don't like it when you point out hypocrisy.

Death penalty?Good.

War? Good.

Culture of life, yep.
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:39 PM
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3. not a culture of life at all
A sick, narrow, twisted parody of it. It's better to be "alive" and miserable and helpless than to be dead.

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seeker4ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:42 PM
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4. Another wee thread here
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:44 PM
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5. So funny
In a disgusting sort of way. Didn't he have 150 executions including a born-again Christian that he laughed at? And now he's trying to "save" this one woman? I don't like this at all.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:44 PM
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6. hector459, Simple and very to the point. You nailed it.
Nominated!
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:50 PM
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7. Don't forget war and poverty!
Yay, culture of life!
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:03 PM
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8. what you're missing is hypocrisy . . . the basis of US policies, . . .
both foreign and domestic . . . the Hypocritical States of America . . .
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DARE to HOPE Donating Member (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:26 PM
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9. Our local WGN-9 news in Chicago just reported the R Catholic bishops...
...have launched an all get out movement AGAINST the death penalty today, even to include lobbying Congress. Well. Christians are really SICK of those who use our Lord's Name in vain, Mr. Bush and Mr. Terry!! Oh, and Mr. DeLay!!
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PittLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:20 PM
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10. I would like someone to explain to me ...
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 04:22 PM by PittLib
how these people, steeped in all of their religious conviction, believe death to be so awful? Does it mean that the "heaven" and afterlife stuff they are trying to peddle, is crap - that they don't believe it themselves? I think the death penalty is merciful ... not a particularly ideal form of punishment, not to mention how it adversely affects a society's respect for human life. That they would keep a person tethered to this world (against the upheld notions of her wishes) is amazingly unconscionable. Don't get me wrong, life can be great ... but when my time comes, for god's sake ... let me go. This cavalier attitude toward life (assigning value to the individual)is, in essence, "playing God" and is about as "unchristian" as it gets. :shrug:


edit for typo. eek.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:28 PM
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11. My, my, how fucking humane can they get???
n/t
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