'EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has expressed "deep regret" after two men were hanged for murder in Japan on Wednesday and repeated a call for a moratorium on using the death penalty.'EU Observer.
How dare you criticise a nation in our name Cathy, for having the guts to exercise proper justice in their own country?
'The two executed men were Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, convicted of killing six women in a jewellery shop fire, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, who killed a man and a woman in 2003.'
So typical of the left - they cannot distinguish between retribution and revenge; they dismiss public opinion; they have no concept of justice; they protect the guilty; they utter platitudes to victims; they dare to act 'in our name'; they shun democracy; they do not care what social damage is caused by their 'finer feelings'; they believe themselves to be 'morally superior to us lesser mortals'.
When they have given the people the democratic right to reject capital punishment and we have voted thus - then and only then can their views be taken seriously - currently, their views are in a vacuum.
New Living Translation "If anyone takes a human life, that person's life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image." Genesis 9:6.
Jesus did not remove any social punishments but only spoke to those wanting to take the Law into their own hands.
'Turn the other cheek' for example, was clearly an instruction to the individual, the verse above was clearly for society.
Oh. And in case you wondered - the murder rate in Japan is a fraction of what it is here!
A check of Psalm 94 doesn't go too far amiss, either.
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