RAGE Show : An Eye For An Eye -- the new deterrent   
      
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   Today, we live in such a politically-correct world. We have become so   
   superficially polite, and so concerned with projecting an image of being   
   civilized, that even cold-blooded, violent murderers are given a humane   
   three-drug cocktail so that their lives are terminated as they are knocked   
   unconscious, without ever feeling even the slightest bit of the same pain   
   that they inflicted upon their victims.   
      
   Gone is death by stoning. Gone are the swords and the guillotines. Gone are   
   the firing squads. Gone are the gallows. Gone are the electric chairs. These   
   methods of terminating a human life instilled fear in would-be doers of   
   violent crimes -- they were strong deterrents -- but they are all gone.   
      
   So we must ask ourselves: Is this new easy way out -- lethal injection --   
   really serving to deter violent crime?   
      
   In fact, is condemning a violent murderer to be locked up for the remainder   
   of his or her life, without any chance of parole -- at the expense of the   
   state -- really serving to deter violent crime?   
      
   Has the criminal justice system become too soft, or possibly even too   
   corrupt?   
      
   Is it in fact time to reform the criminal justice system?   
      
   And the big question: Is it time to go back to the Mosaic Law and "an eye   
   for an eye"?   
      
   What if social justice were placed in the hands of the families of the   
   victims?   
      
   What if in place of political correctness and superficial politeness, the   
   families of victims were allowed to express their full rage against the   
   perpetrators of these hideous crimes by inflicting upon them the very same   
   acts -- and no more -- that they committed against their deceased loved   
   ones? Yes! An eye for an eye! Full, untempered revenge!   
      
   Would this give the victims' families more closure? Would it give them more   
   of a sense of justice? Would it give them more peace of mind?   
      
   What if -- in an effort to make this new criminal justice system an even   
   stronger deterrent against violent crime -- it was broadcast nationally on a   
   weekly basis for all to see? Just think; the producers could even use slow   
   motion cameras and zoom lenses as the families of the victims made the   
   perpetrators of these crimes really suffer for their vile deeds. Gore for   
   gore, and limb for limb, all in beautiful color, right before your very   
   eyes! And, of course, the families of the victims would remain immune to   
   criminal prosecution!   
      
   This is . . .   
      
   "RAGE Show : An Eye For An Eye -- the new deterrent"   
      
   . . . coming to a theater near you!   
      
   Now tell me; would you go to see such a film?   
      
   Would you sit in your seat and cheer on the families as they took their   
   revenge against these scums of the Earth?   
      
   Before you answer, consider the following:   
      
   "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can   
   know it?"   
   Jeremiah 17:9, KJV   
      
   ". . . For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,   
   adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,   
   lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil   
   things come from within, and defile the man."   
   Mark 7:20b-23, KJV   
      
   In contrast to the imaginary scenario which I have depicted for you in the   
   previous lines, the Bible actually teaches us the following:   
      
   "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."   
   Proverbs 10:12, KJV   
      
   "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."   
   Matthew 5:7, KJV   
      
   "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also   
   forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your   
   Father forgive your trespasses."   
   Matthew 6:14-15, KJV   
      
   "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin   
   against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say   
   not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."   
   Matthew 18:21-22, KJV   
      
   "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be   
   condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:"   
   Luke 6:37, KJV   
      
   "Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him;   
   and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times   
   in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;   
   thou shalt forgive him."   
   Luke 17:3-4, KJV   
      
   "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore   
   such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also   
   be tempted."   
   Galatians 6:1, KJV   
      
   "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even   
   as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."   
   Ephesians 4:32, KJV   
      
   "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity   
   shall cover the multitude of sins."   
   1 Peter 4:8, KJV   
      
   "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and   
   to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."   
   1 John 1:9, KJV   
      
   Forgiveness does not come easy to the human heart. We want oh so much to   
   hold on to our anger, our bitterness, our rage, our grudge, our desire for   
   revenge; particularly when it involves a violent crime against ourselves, or   
   against someone whom we love. In some cases, it is in fact humanly   
   impossible to call up even the smallest degree of mercy and forgiveness from   
   within ourselves. It in fact requires Divine Intervention, and a total   
   spiritual transformation of our inner man. It also requires that we honestly   
   recognize what sinners we are ourselves.   
      
   For more information concerning this topic, please consider reading such   
   articles as "Love, Mercy, Forgiveness and Chastisement" and "Bloody But   
   Unbowed : Timothy McVeigh and the Death Penalty". You can read them online   
   at our Endtime Prophecy Net website, download them in PDF format from the   
   same, or download them in PDF format here on our Armageddon BBS as well.   
      
      
      
   Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS  Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23   
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