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Question: Do you support it? Do you consider yourself religious?
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Türkisblau
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« on: April 26, 2015, 08:21:42 PM »
By this, I mean the idea of the death penalty and not how it is given institutionally. In other words, if you were sure someone was guilty of murder in a perfect system with a "humane" form of execution, would you support it?

I've always found it interesting how many those of faith approve of the death penalty even though it runs counter to many of the ideas and tenets of most religions. I'd like to see how Atlas pans out on this issue.

Myself, I follow Catholic teaching on this issue so I'm strongly in the No column, religious of course.
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2015, 09:03:06 PM »
Option 2
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2015, 09:04:23 PM »
No (not religious)
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2015, 09:05:17 PM »
This forum is going to be a very very different sample from the public I think, lol.

No (religious)
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2015, 09:05:33 PM »
Option 1
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2015, 09:12:26 PM »
Does this include, for example, killing Osama bin Laden?
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2015, 09:18:00 PM »
Quote from: SMilo on April 26, 2015, 09:05:17 PM
This forum is going to be a very very different sample from the public I think, lol.

Quote from: Pacific Speaker Türkisblau on April 26, 2015, 08:21:42 PM
I'd like to see how Atlas pans out on this issue.
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2015, 09:19:24 PM »
Quote from: Beet on April 26, 2015, 09:12:26 PM
Does this include, for example, killing Osama bin Laden?

This means executing someone deliberately, not in combat.
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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2015, 09:19:46 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2015, 09:26:31 PM »
Quote from: Pacific Speaker Türkisblau on April 26, 2015, 09:19:24 PM
Quote from: Beet on April 26, 2015, 09:12:26 PM
Does this include, for example, killing Osama bin Laden?

This means executing someone deliberately, not in combat.

I would hardly say bin Laden was conclusively in a combat situation when he was killed, but that's enough for me to vote No (religious).
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2015, 12:10:00 AM »
  Option Two via firing squad.
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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2015, 01:10:52 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2015, 02:11:46 AM »
Option 4
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« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2015, 02:35:25 AM »
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« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2015, 04:22:26 AM »
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« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2015, 06:55:05 AM »
Option Two
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« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2015, 07:07:10 AM »
no (normal)
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« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2015, 10:28:50 AM »
Voted option 3, don't consider myself religious but would be for sake of the poll.
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« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2015, 10:55:08 AM »
No (irreligious)
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« Reply #19 on: April 27, 2015, 02:34:35 PM »
Yes.

What does "religious" really mean?  I mean, I call myself a Lutheran but have drifted into the C&E Club.  I have an extraordinarily liberal interpretation of the Bible and a rather unorthodox view of God, but I'm not an atheist.
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« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2015, 09:18:29 PM »
Quote from: RINO Tom on April 27, 2015, 02:34:35 PM
Yes.

What does "religious" really mean?  I mean, I call myself a Lutheran but have drifted into the C&E Club.  I have an extraordinarily liberal interpretation of the Bible and a rather unorthodox view of God, but I'm not an atheist.

I used it as kind of a catch all and used "consider yourself religious" in order to get self-interpretation in there.

Interesting results so far!
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« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2015, 10:43:14 PM »
Absolutely not. Not a part of an organized religion.
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« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2015, 09:15:53 AM »
Quote from: I left my heart in the back of the cab on April 27, 2015, 10:28:50 AM
Voted option 3, don't consider myself religious but would be for sake of the poll.

lol

Anyway, no, I don't support the death penalty in any circumstance and am not religious.
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« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2015, 03:51:54 PM »
No, not religious. Viscerally there are some people who I'd like to see die a slow and painful death but I don't think we can ever have a fullproof system.
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« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2015, 03:59:46 PM »
No (not religious).  Though I do make an exception for honest-to-God cases of genocide, e.g. the Nuremburg trials.
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