As a Christian I'm against the death penalty for the same reason I'm against abo

rtion: who are we to decide who lives and dies? Obviously those two lives are di
fferent, one deserves life, the other doesn't, but that doesn't mean we as human
s should be the final arbiter of life and death (with a few rare exceptions) bec
ause that's God's role. God gave even the worst criminals life, therefore it's o
nly right to leave their death to Him as well. This isn't some emotional plea to
protect criminals like the liberals make, this is rooted in scripture. "Never t
ake your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is wr
itten, "vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord." Also, if we want these
criminals to really suffer, who actually thinks instant death is the worst puni
shment they can receive? They don't have a reason to go on living anyway so this
just puts them out of their misery and lets them escape the punishment they des
erve. They would suffer a lot more rotting away in a jail cell the rest of their
life, being forced to reflect on the horrible crimes they've committed. A small
percentage of them might even be able to be converted to the faith, and indeed
some have, that's what prison ministry is all about.
Liberals wanna turn it around on conservatives and say it's not consistent to be
against abortion but support the death penalty, and there's some degree of trut
h to that because in both cases man is playing God and taking the life of his fe
llow man, which is only the job of God to do.
But clearly it's not an equal comparison when liberals compare an innocent unbor
n baby to a violent and evil criminal on death row. The unborn baby deserves pr
otection and the chance to live, the criminal deserves punishment for his horrib
le crime. But that doesn't mean his punishment should include death. If we bel
ieve the scriptures then we'll leave the final judgement up to God because God s
ays "vengeance is mine", which means no murderer or rapist will ever get away wi
th their crimes because when they die God and His perfect justice will be waitin
g for them, and the suffering they will go through in Hell is infinitely greater
than the worst punishment we can provide.
Although an unborn baby deserves more protection than a violent criminal, in the
eyes of God all life has value and every single human being was made in His ima
ge and therefore must be treated with dignity no matter what they've done. The
exceptions to this rule would be during times of war when we capture enemies who
are still dangerous, or for the most violent criminals who have influence while
in prison or have a chance of escaping.
So I turn the argument around on liberals and say they should be against abortio
n for the same reason they're against the death penalty. Their position is inco
nsistent and completely hypocritical. They wanna have it both ways cause on the
one hand they say it's inhumane for us to execute the most violent criminals, b
ut on the other hand it's not inhumane to execute the most innocent lives imagin
eable (which, make no mistake, is what abortion is, murder), a defenseless unbor
n baby in its mother's womb.
I believe in both cases it's inhumane, obviously abortion being much higher in d
egree than killing a violent criminal, so my position is consistent.
They say we must protect the lives of these criminals because two wrongs don't m
ake a right, and killing them does nothing to undo the wrong they did or deter o
ther criminals from doing the same thing. Yet when I say the same thing about a
bortion, especially in cases of rape or incest, they say that's different becaus
e it's the choice of the mother since it's her body.
That's ridiculous of course because it's not her body, it's her baby's body, it
just happens to be inside her body. Just because one human is inside another's
body, doesn't give that person the right to destroy the life inside her. A life
is a life, regardless of where it is or how small it is. The science is unequi
vocally clear, a distinct human life is created at the moment of conception, and
even for the liberals who refuse to believe that, by the time 100% of abortions
take place in the pregnancy, it clearly involves destroying a being who is aliv
e, and in many cases, capable of feeling pain.
So liberals should be pro-life if they really believe all life has inherent dign
ity and worth since it came from God, because abortion involves the taking of an
innocent life, much the way executing an innocent man by accident does, which h
as happened from time to time and is a reason liberals give for getting rid of t
he death penalty.
If they wanna make sure that no innocent adult life is taken by accident, how mu
ch more should they wanna make sure that no innocent baby's life be taken unnece
ssarily? Abortion does that every time, because even in cases of rape, the moth
er can give the child up for adoption if she doesn't want the baby or isn't able
to raise it. So it's disingenuous for liberals to say they really care about p
rotectnig innocent life in one case but not in the other, using "women's rights"
as an excuse.
I think most of them simply aren't comfortable or have enough of a religious bac
kground to say abortion is evil because they aren't comfortable saying anything
is evil, they have a warped sense of morality. Also, they want a culture that p
romotes convenience and doing whatever makes you feel good over doing what's rig
ht, because for many of them that's how they live their lives, so they would fee
l guilty telling women it's wrong to have an abortion out of convenience, and th
ey know it would be somewhat hypocritical considering how they don't use that sa
me standard of morality in their own life or when it comes to valuing the lives
of others in their everyday interactions.
But to test their beliefs and sincerity, one can ask a simple question: since y
ou believe abortion is ok because the gov't doesn't have the right to tell a wom
an what to do with her body, then shouldn't that apply to all stages of pregnanc
y? The baby's still in her body right up til the moment of birth, therefore sho
uldn't abortion be legal up to that point? Strangely it's not and even most lib
erals agree that it shouldn't be, but when you ask them why they have no clear e
xplanation, which makes it clear they haven't done their research on this issue
and have taken a position on it as an emotional response rather than from a scie
ntific and spiritual perspective.
Who sets the cut off point for when it's a woman's right to choose and when it's
murder and made illegal? What's the criteria for this arbitrary point in a wom
an's pregnancy? These are questions liberals simply don't have answers to.
I suggest they go back and do some research on this before they attempt to lectu
re conservatives about the morality of the death penalty and torture.
Likewise, I think it's time for conservative Christians to go back and study the
Bible and the theology of the death penalty before telling liberals they can't
play God and determine whether or not a baby should live or die.