Question by Raziel_Glossolalia: Why Wont So Called Christians Release Repentant Criminals? ?
Why Wont So Called Christians Release Repentant Criminals?
Concerning Matthew 18:25-35
Please read and pay attention to whole detail of outline so you won’t give a stupid response. Their are practical forms of legislation and social reasoning that can confirm the logos behind what you may deem in prejudice ridiculous Please Don’t resort to stupid insults and slander either
Think of it this way can you say that when you’re spiritual you refuse those seeking mercy and charity and condemn those who ask for it to hell. Can you say when you’re feeling nostalgic that incarceration prevents crime and repeat offenses? Recidivism rates would argue against your flawed logic. Can you state that change of behavior and rehabilitation comes from external means or is it an internal development? That being said why would anyone believe in changing their behavior when they have no reason to and while they dislike prison it really fairs little punishment but to those few who are preyed on and many of them are divided from population(Some however are not and receive unfair cruel and unusual punishment). So why should anyone want to change or believe in god when we ourselves show hypocrisy in our hearts and actions how then can such individuals make internal changes needed for true rehabilitation that without released into society after incarcerated actually makes the public more a danger from the inmate who has become psychologically warped from the lifestyle of incarceration and given little helpful tools but to network and make more contacts creating a more intelligent and dangerous criminal
Now for legislative logos statistics show increased cost of funding in criminal justice and punishment has in no way reduced crime in fact just the opposite we are seeing a trend of increase 5 times the average we are also seeing a dramatic increase in cost and prison over crowding while sociology experiments are showing that merciful acts in state show a dramatic reduction in crime such examples were taken during the Vietnam war and drug rehab center legislation prior to mandatory minimum sentence concluding it just feels good and costs a lot in fact white color crimes are said to be more expensive to jail then a hospital bill and drug offenders on average are more expensive to jail then rehab programs Yes put away violent offenders but their are alternative punishments to non violent offenders or at least reduced sentencing The real question we should be asking ourselves is what is the correlation between incarceration and crime rates experts say their is none that incarceration does not equal change in behavior so for all our incarceration are we really safer experts say no Can we draw out a public safety plan that is fiscally sane remember your flipping the bill for these people The answer is yes many bills offering programs without sentence or reduced sentence are offered part of religious rehabilitation program even with violent offenders in church services and anger management but because of republicans and conservative Christians this bill has been shot down Also we must come to the moral realization that prison is in no way fair punishment I mean that the punishment is not equal to all inmates and that constitutes a moral ethic of un equal punishment as well as for a select minority cruel and unusual I think corporal punishment if agreed upon should be administered by government not by underground seedy organizations like prison gangs that are obviously cruel and unusual in addition safety regulation has occurred for prison inmates increasing Co Officers and was effective in Texas but the law was later removed by you guessed it Conservative Christian republicans
Quote: To repeat same activity expecting different result is insanity. Do we not do that with the aspect of incarceration seeing only increase in prison populations?
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The Separation of church and state is just a clause How Is Church and State Divided?
Ok I know The U.S Constitution right; the first Amendment Congress shall pass no law that is in favor of any religion. but isn’t American economics founded on the protestant ethos and don’t we have to swear oaths in courts Don’t we say god in the pledge of allegiance does it not say in god we trust on our printed money Don’t we pass state laws favorable to monotheism like abortion and bans on gay marriage like prop 8 politically hiding it’s involvement as to make lies successful like saying it’s about the definition of marriage which it was not It was about civil liberty in making a amendment to the state Constitution because a law regarding same sex marriage was over tuned in four case precedents from judges in Northern California. Why have republicans become political candidates of conservative Christian’s Why do we always attribute morality and god to our wars or political projects Why cant we remain in logos of political movements why did feminism take so long why was prohibition passed
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Answer by wizjp
Render under Caesar
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Prove that these criminals are truly repentant and not just claiming they are for pity and remorse.
If you release prisoners that claim to be repentant, some will go out and commit more crimes. Most people serving time don’t reform.
obey the laws of the land to which you are subject. nuf said
Respectfully, you have asked at least a dozen questions, some rhetorical, some not. I’m trying to understand if you’re asking about Church and State, or Crime and Punishment, or the relationship between Federal Law and State Law. If you could focus your question(s) a little better, it would help. Thanks.
Most “Christians”, in my experience, struggle with certain New Testament concepts such as “love thy neighbour” and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, preferring instead a rather more Old Testament worldview.
Curiously, most of the improvements in prison conditions have come about as a result of the activities of less mainstream Christians (and atheists), who are at least able to recognise that most flawed human beings are not solely imbued with evil.
I’ve never understood the desire “Christians” profess to turn punishment back to a model from a thousand years before the birth of Christ
The truly repentant would understand and accept the necessity of their incarceration.
Forgiveness of sin does not equal commutation of sentence. I look at the example of the thieves being crucified alongside Christ on Calvary. He accepted the one’s repentance, and forgave his sins, but did not prevent the sentence from being carried out. That is the true Christian example for me.
Oh, and as the prison population has increased, crime has gone down. Coincidence or causation?
As for same sex marriage, it is my belief that if the people so choose to make it legal, that it should be done either by their own votes or the votes of their elected representatives. Not by 4 judges who decide to overthrow 200+ years of the only accepted legal definition of marriage in this country. This is the aspect you miss.
And, no, I think you are quite wrong about the factor of Christianity driving the political decisions. That may be your perception, but I do not see that at all.
I wonder if you get some satisfaction out of presenting the same stupid rant of random thoughts day after day.
The old testament laws never gave any one an excuse for breaking the law. Anyone can act repentant.
The punishment for crime needs to be strictly enforced.
Even Son of Sam fought his parole believing he deserves life in prison for his crimes. He has truely repented, imo.