Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Ascended Aside: Catholicism vs. Capital Punishment

 Contrary to modern-day perceptions, the early medieval church actually was repelled by capital punishment.

 https://ol.reddit.com/r/history/comments/j0yq5w/was_the_death_penalty_really_that_common_in/?rdt=53080 

The saying was that "the Church abhors the shedding of blood." 

 That is: when ""modern"" countries do away with the death penalty, they are being especially christian, as is meet for a christian race living under fundamentalism. 

 

 The deviance is obvious. In those days, the tithe was mandatory. Can't offer a tithe if you're dead. The church, like all mortal institutions, is in favour of private profits + public costs. A fortiori, luxury envy/spite beliefs: they want to [[forgive]] the criminal, showing they're so rich they're unbothered by crime.
 Which is to say, [never get so racist you forget white leftists are the worst people in the world].


 Reddit is awful 99.9% of the time, but that 0.1% appears to reliably show up on search engines, so there's that.

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