So here in Luzerne County there is a man a trial for the murder of a baby girl and many people are calling for his execution. The thing that I don't get is that many of the people who are calling for his execution are the same people that protest outside Planned Parenthood. I'm not saying that we should let this man walk free but we can not execute him. We cannot say that this man has no right to life but that the little girl whose life he may or may not have taken had a right to life. In the eyes of God the man and the little girl are equal and therefore they both have the right to life. One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shall not kill" there is no extension to that command that says unless someone commits murder because in that case you can kill them. And yes I know that when the Hebrew people were wondering in the desert the Bible says that they killed many people but throughout the New Testament we are told that as Christians we are "to live in love as Christ loved us" and that we are to "be merciful just as your Father in heaven is merciful." One of the articles of the Declaration of Human rights is the right to life. Many "Christians" say that human life begins at conception and ends at death. I do not believe that we have the right to say that someone should be executed because they took someone's life. Because if we take a murders life it makes us murder and therefore by our own beliefs we must also be executed. I think you can see how this can get out of hand very fast. God loves us no matter what we do and as Christians it is our responsibility to love others just like God does.
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