see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
LUHE I think the death penalty should be kept
The problem with any punishment is, that callous criminals will commit murder, worse crimes, to keep hiding their identity, escape punishment.
maybe, that is why Cain was never punished, the not so good samaritan, that knew about the plan never intervened. in the genesis story. --- good samaritan laws now?
btw, people have been executed for being just part of the party that was involved in a killing.
honda vfr 750.
In a training aeroplane practicing how to recover from a spin.
Unlike described the previous posts, done at safe altitude.
for bikes and cars being airborne at these speeds often ends in unplanned ground contact. By contrast, for planes, being too slow and low is actually the cause of many wrecks.
solomon Boeing 737.
wise guy, with the harem.
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
I do not understand the high tolerance for crime among atheists. or
the high tolerance for gang rape among feminists,
as a nonagenarian deist I believe everyone has a right to live, to life, -- except when you deny that right to someone else by killing them. then you have given up that right, proven yourself unworthy to live. then,
ask for euthanasia a eu = good --death. a privilege you probable denied your victim[s].
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
the death penalty also shouldn't be so humane,
AM, no, it should be a painless elimination, under full anesthesia. but with the criminology budgets heavily expandet to make prevention, protection, detection prosecution, elimination as flawless as possible.
Reserve prisons, ghettos for groups that are crime prone.
PS perhaps the atheistic frame of mind favours a free for all, a lawless mess of a universe.
what do jws think about a regular member in congregation can be disfellowshipped, but when governing body makes something wrong, like two witnesses rules on child molestation, it's just considered 'they are not perfect' and can do wrong?
when, with an heavy accent, you read your headline from right to left, it reads: lai trap. so,
before we get trapped in a straw man argument about unsubstantiated wrongdoings, let's ignore this, and concentrated on the themes that should make us really
feel sorry for the GB and the predicaments it finds itself in. .
three years ago, on september 1 - 4, 2018, watch tower society of quebec (la tour de garde, société de bibles et de traités du québec), finalised its merger ("voluntary amlgamation") with "123 incorporated congregations of jehovah's witnesses in quebec," with kingdom halls owned by these incorporated congregations (total book value - ca$114,390,856, or 92 million usd) becoming assets of the society.
quebec congregations continue to exist as unincorporated associations and registered charities, while wt quebec only "manages, maintains and constructs" khs ("in cooperation with" wt canada and jw congregation support (formerly regional building committee)) and appoints certain elders to officiate marriages in the province.. sources: .
https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplybscsrch .
I don't understand this move.
SL, in this money game, you have to analyze all the moves.
jws having la liberte' to vote on these resolutions in the kh. now on zoom.
i was raised as a jw and left the group as many of the teachings don’t align with my core values.
now, forward almost 10 years, my wife and i are raising our kids through puberty and i have to admit, this challenge is not easy and seems to be even more difficult in that my own upbringing was very different.
i find it hard to compare how i was raised with what i now must do for my own kids.
stephan, you still have to have a list of principles from your distant Pa st, that apply, and in which areas you want to be more liberal. the degrees of la liberte'
are you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
Just what we need. Another man-made holiday. aw
well yeah, but let them enJoy. that is why I pointed out the heavenly based, the tilt of the earth's spin in sunlight. it is tops, as Earth spins like a top. in OZ its short and cool.
are you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
Waton, what are you talking about?
SORRY MINIMUS, I did not live long enough below the Mason Dixon line , in Dixi, to connect with your USA specific June freedom events. enJoy \
A broader perspective is calendar based, astronomy.
North of the NE border they will celebrate "St. Jean", 24 June, sun worship really.
"Vivre le Québec libre", as De Gaulle would say.
are you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
well we will have the summer solstice, the sunlight highpoint of the year. and had the ring of fire on the tenth,
signs in the heavens.
