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Originally posted by Aragorn1:
[QB] Our religion? We're protestant over here, pope's the anti-christ and all that . (I told you before, we're not all the same [img]smile.gif[/img] )
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Splitting hairs. Besides, I'm sure we can trot out some interesting protestant-specific acts. Um... come to think of it, quartering and drawing and impalement was probably done by protestants. Weren't the Salem witch trials done by protestants?
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And we abandoned those practices a long while ago.
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I'm just pointing out that there's plenty of guilt to go around on the issue. All of our cultures have evidenced savagery in the past, and a couple of hundred years ain't but a blink of the eye, really.
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My point is that they are still being used and i think it wrong. While i accept the death penalty is defensable, I refuse to believe there can be any justification for such cruel and unusual punishment.
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Agreeable statements, of course. [img]graemlins/cheers.gif[/img]