Comments on: DC Sniper to be executed tonight http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:57:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: The Bulletproof Monk http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-38071 The Bulletproof Monk Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:16:23 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-38071 I believe that God actually tests each of us, although in many, many different ways. How we respond to any particular predicament placed before us IS INDEED free will. But we're graded on the choice. I believe that God actually tests each of us, although in many, many different ways. How we respond to any particular predicament placed before us IS INDEED free will. But we’re graded on the choice.

]]> By: Barbara Munsey http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-38024 Barbara Munsey Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:29:44 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-38024 Dean, there may be an easier answer--remember "free will"? Unless one is a proponent of Calvinist predestination, after we're here the choices are all up to us. Plenty of people one would think were doomed to failure of every kind manage to succeed, and plenty with adavntages beyond the concept of most people on earth still manage to make some pretty horrific choices. Remember the elderly Chinese scholars of Steinbeck's East of Eden learning Hebrew so that they could properly discuss the translation of whether one SHALL, WILL, or MAY have dominion over evil? "May" turned out to be the most accurate. We all have choices. What do we choose? Dean, there may be an easier answer–remember “free will”?

Unless one is a proponent of Calvinist predestination, after we’re here the choices are all up to us.

Plenty of people one would think were doomed to failure of every kind manage to succeed, and plenty with adavntages beyond the concept of most people on earth still manage to make some pretty horrific choices.

Remember the elderly Chinese scholars of Steinbeck’s East of Eden learning Hebrew so that they could properly discuss the translation of whether one SHALL, WILL, or MAY have dominion over evil?

“May” turned out to be the most accurate.

We all have choices.

What do we choose?

]]> By: The Bulletproof Monk http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-38020 The Bulletproof Monk Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:02 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-38020 "God knows when he is making a baby, what the baby will become. So why doesn’t he correct it right then instead of subjecting many to pain?" Why must you feel so elevated that you feel worthy to question your creator? You are , by no means, omnipotent. God works in ways you will never understand. Everything happens for a reason. It is beyond mere mortal men's cognitive abilities to grasp that concept. It equates to trying to invision the universe which is infinite. We cannot truly grasp that it never ends. Now, you attempt to step up on the same plane as your creator and question him. So much for humility. “God knows when he is making a baby, what the baby will become. So why doesn’t he correct it right then instead of subjecting many to pain?”

Why must you feel so elevated that you feel worthy to question your creator?
You are , by no means, omnipotent. God works in ways you will never understand. Everything happens for a reason. It is beyond mere mortal men’s cognitive abilities to grasp that concept. It equates to trying to invision the universe which is infinite. We cannot truly grasp that it never ends.
Now, you attempt to step up on the same plane as your creator and question him. So much for humility.

]]> By: Lloyd the Idiot http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37983 Lloyd the Idiot Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:55:55 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37983 Cato, that was very funny. Politically incorrect as Hell, but funny. Monk, I agree. Muhammad got off easy. I'd like to see him suffer far more. A slow, painful death would have been more a more just and appropriate punishment. This is the first time where the actions of an executed murderer had any impact on me personally, and it's only because his actions terrorized me and my family in the general sense - like the rest of the residents in the area. It's absolutely nothing like what the families of the victims must have felt and continue to feel, but I am damn glad that remorseless piece of crap is dead. Cato, that was very funny. Politically incorrect as Hell, but funny.

Monk, I agree. Muhammad got off easy. I’d like to see him suffer far more. A slow, painful death would have been more a more just and appropriate punishment.

This is the first time where the actions of an executed murderer had any impact on me personally, and it’s only because his actions terrorized me and my family in the general sense – like the rest of the residents in the area. It’s absolutely nothing like what the families of the victims must have felt and continue to feel, but I am damn glad that remorseless piece of crap is dead.

]]> By: Chris Milton http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37973 Chris Milton Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:56 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37973 God knows when he is making a baby, what the baby will become. So why doesn't he correct it right then instead of subjecting many to pain? God knows when he is making a baby, what the baby will become. So why doesn’t he correct it right then instead of subjecting many to pain?

]]> By: Radu http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37966 Radu Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:09:31 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37966 With so little respect for life, one could only wonder why he should still enjoy it. I'm not pro death penalty, I just feel he lost his right to life. I see no point bringing the religion debate here, since its not about personnal beliefs. What the victims would have said ? With so little respect for life, one could only wonder why he should still enjoy it. I’m not pro death penalty, I just feel he lost his right to life. I see no point bringing the religion debate here, since its not about personnal beliefs. What the victims would have said ?

]]> By: Brian S http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37951 Brian S Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:11 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37951 Eric, if that's how you read it, then capital punishment doesn't fit the definition. So you should be concerned with Rob's reading, not my comment about exceptions. . But regardless, this isn't a theological debate. Eric, if that’s how you read it, then capital punishment doesn’t fit the definition. So you should be concerned with Rob’s reading, not my comment about exceptions.
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But regardless, this isn’t a theological debate.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37949 Ryan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:49:46 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37949 The difference is the god of the sharia law. (Sharia law is not God's law like Muslims proclaim it to be.) [Yes, that is a fact. An absolute statement.] The difference is the god of the sharia law. (Sharia law is not God’s law like Muslims proclaim it to be.) [Yes, that is a fact. An absolute statement.]

]]> By: Eric the 1/2 troll http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37948 Eric the 1/2 troll Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:38 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37948 "God tells us here that if we do bad things, we should be afraid because the government bears the sword to carry out God’s wrath on the wrong doers." This philosophy, of course, is used as a justification for Sharia Law. “God tells us here that if we do bad things, we should be afraid because the government bears the sword to carry out God’s wrath on the wrong doers.”

This philosophy, of course, is used as a justification for Sharia Law.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600&cpage=1#comment-37946 Ryan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:43:23 +0000 http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=5600#comment-37946 Eric: Yes, I agree to a point. However, I disagree that the death penalty is wrong or somehow unbiblical. Taking one or two sentences out of the source (http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2001/0727news.asp)I posted can make the argument appear invalid and even silly, but if you read the whole I think it explains very closely to what I personally believe to be the truth about the death penalty. Eric: Yes, I agree to a point. However, I disagree that the death penalty is wrong or somehow unbiblical.

Taking one or two sentences out of the source (http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2001/0727news.asp)I posted can make the argument appear invalid and even silly, but if you read the whole I think it explains very closely to what I personally believe to be the truth about the death penalty.

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