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You can argue against the death penalty a thousands ways. It is statistically racist, it is against the Christian way which is supposedly important in America,

by mrtron 11y ago

You can argue against the death penalty a thousands ways. It is statistically racist, it is against the Christian way which is supposedly important in America, there is little reason to kill someone when you can securely lock them away indefinitely. I don't see how you can argue for the death penalty. Killing people doesn't help anyone. Who has lived a happy and healthy life as a result of a death row execution of someone with a life sentence?

verbin217 11y ago
In my experience Christian's seem very supportive of the death penalty.
- lotharbot 11y ago
  http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss10 http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss10 (2010) and http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss14 http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss14 (2014) are huge data sets on peoples' demographics and opinions. Run the table "CAPPUN" vs "RELIG". Nearly every major religious position in the US (including atheist/agnostic/none) is largely in favor of the death penalty, with only Muslims and Native Americans coming out as more than 50% opposed in both sets, and "other eastern" being over 50% in the newer set. Also of note: whites are much more in favor of the death penalty than other races, Republicans are slightly more in favor than Democrats, people with higher incomes are more in favor than those with lower incomes, and people with average education (high school or 2-year college) are more in favor than those with either very high or very low education. (I'm from a religious subgroup that's anti-death-penalty, anti-war, pro-life, etc. and I would argue that the death penalty isn't consistent with a Christian ethic, but plenty of people obviously disagree with me.)
  - verbin217 11y ago
    Thank you for posting this. All of it was super interesting. Also thank you for your assuredly thankless service as both a rational and faithful person.

by mrtron 11y ago

verbin217 11y ago

In my experience Christian's seem very supportive of the death penalty.

lotharbot 11y ago
http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss10 http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss10 (2010) and http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss14 http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss14 (2014) are huge data sets on peoples' demographics and opinions. Run the table "CAPPUN" vs "RELIG". Nearly every major religious position in the US (including atheist/agnostic/none) is largely in favor of the death penalty, with only Muslims and Native Americans coming out as more than 50% opposed in both sets, and "other eastern" being over 50% in the newer set. Also of note: whites are much more in favor of the death penalty than other races, Republicans are slightly more in favor than Democrats, people with higher incomes are more in favor than those with lower incomes, and people with average education (high school or 2-year college) are more in favor than those with either very high or very low education. (I'm from a religious subgroup that's anti-death-penalty, anti-war, pro-life, etc. and I would argue that the death penalty isn't consistent with a Christian ethic, but plenty of people obviously disagree with me.)
- verbin217 11y ago
  Thank you for posting this. All of it was super interesting. Also thank you for your assuredly thankless service as both a rational and faithful person.