The Death penalty - can this ever be justified in 2019?- your opinion please

Are you a fundamentalist christian?

I think there are risks with the death penalty, for example killing an innocent person or the government using it as a tool for revolutionaries. However, I agree with the the death penalty for murderers and pedophiles.

Paedophiles convicted of raping a child or multiple children?
Or all paedophiles convicted of any child sex offence- including those who download, sell or produce child pornography.

I guess so, I don't know how else I'd describe it.🤷

My friend is a fundamentalist christian.
I think that there is a criteria of five components for fundamentalist christianity.
Scriptural literalism, scriptural inerrancy, biblical infallibility (king james bible only), salvation by faith alone and weekly attendance at a fundamentalist protestant church/ membership of a fundamentalist protestant denomination.

ah then I guess I am a fundamentalist, except I don't attend a fundamentalist church since I'm not allowed 😁

Some fundamentalist christians have issues with using the word church because they want to totally separate themselves from both catholic traditions and all other protestant sects that do use the word church or build churches that look anything like the catholic ones.

if God commands the death penalty on someone, it's justified. because God is always just.

Amen, when god said let there be famine and war, he meant it in a just way. But people just don’t interpret it properly nowadays because the books have been changed by people

so what word will they use instead of church? Congregation of the LORD? Assembly?

Convicted pedophiles should definitely be killed.

Those who have not yet attacked a child should be jailed. When they come out, they should be required to sign a public pedophile register and inform all neighbours/co-workers that they are pedophiles. If these people then attack/molest a child, they are given the death penalty.

Some fundamentalist christians use the words assembly, halls and gospel halls- as a substitute word for church, to indicate their place of communal worship.
The congregation of the lord term tends to be used in the usa, mainly by the church of christ faction.
The church of christ are not fundamentalist christians, they are very conservative evangelicals but have had a few high profile legal and sex scandals in the last 15 years.

I don't agree with the death penalty under any circumstances.
But there is no denying that the UK criminal justice system is unduly lenient with convicted paedophiles and this puts public safety at risk.

My uncle's life and health were ruined by a convicted paedophile.
A registered sex offender with prior violence convictions, breached his bail during the trial, pleaded not guilty and got a prison sentence of less than two years.
Re-offended almost immediately upon release from jail.

ah I see.
I think my classmate attends that sort of church.

My first boyfriend's family are members of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a northern irish fundamentalist denomination formed by Ian Paisley.
He was atheist but if his family found out or he refused to go for worship, he'd have lost his inheritance.

You see, if that convicted pedophile was killed, he would not have been there to harm your uncle and permanently change his life. The issue with pedophiles is the evil they do to some of the most innocent people. It is rape, but way worse that how it is understood by adults.

The death penalty is definitely justifiable, as some criminals are insane and will keep on killing no matter what. I do not think the death penalty should ever be effective, because in the past some people were wrongly convicted of crimes and got the death penalty. I would rather have criminals in jail than innocent people die for no reason.