Was Jesus for the death penalty?

Was Jesus for the death penalty?

by digby

Apparently quite a few people think he would be ok with it:

Not being a religious person I can’t really speak to this. I know the old testament was all eye-for-an-eye. But I thought Jesus was a different kind of guy.

I’m going to guess that it isn’t a theological disagreement that explains the difference between all these white Christians and the black and brown ones though.

The good news is that the death penalty is a lot less popular than it used to be.  Then again, for reasons that should be obvious, it was a lot less popular before 1968 than it is now when political leaders started demagoguing “law and order” and suddenly a whole bunch of people decided it was a really good idea after all. We still haven’t reverted back.

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