From the current issue of Christianity Today:
“It’s anti-evangelical to kill people. Christianity is redemptive. But you can’t redeem people by extinguishing them.”
– John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute
This seems obvious, yet so many people miss it. As a white evangelical, it’s embarrassing that white evangelicals are the strongest supporters of the death penalty (with an approval of 74% according to the March 2008 issue of CT). I honestly don’t understand how we can say that we believe Jesus died to pay for our sins, but other people have to die to pay for their own sins.
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