Capital punishment should be illegal, and abortion rights should be respected.

uhmm….I'm sorry that taking something out of context to support your argument is wrong. uhm…I'm sorry that we don't like it when people who don't bother to study what they refuted act like professionals. I mean I wouldn't see why a scientist would get mad if I approached a scientist with 3 sentences of a textbook and used it to disprove science. I mean your completely right, asking someone to study what he opposes, not just what he supports is completely illogical, why the heck should anybody reject something after finishing an objective study? No the answer is to Reject before! Then you can always flip through it to find out ways to support what you support. I'm sorry that the Christians that go to [and study for] AND school, know the bible and the science books, but I'm sorry that it doesn't work the same way for most atheist. But hey you're the one offended I'm not, I'm use to anti-Christians ranting and raving and perfecting their craft of taking the bible out of context and using against us. Really I like it when they do it, because they make a neat little trap for themselves every time, only a novice Christian would fail to see how to capitalize on that trap and get offended. Ok I shouldn't be so mean, maybe its just someone not into apologetics , or maybe the hateful words spoken against us finally got to them even though we're suppose to be the hateful ones. Now that I have addressed your bickering I will get onto serious matters and the subject. Sure I agree that if Jesus came today he would be disgusted with a lot of things Christians have done and are doing for example, the crusades, the Spanish inquisition , the Russian purge. All done by Christians all very hateful 2/3 using the Christian banner. But I don't agree that if Jesus came today he would advocate the destruction of our legal system. By saying that no one can judge anyone you are putting a barrier from anybody to be tried in a court of law, and sentenced to any punishment. I did say and I do say that Jesus stands by the Jewish laws and the laws of our country. Besides laughing at my point I don't think you said anything to refute Luke 16:17 Luke 16:16-17 17 (Jesus) "It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law. " NIV or Mathew 5:17 Matt 5:17-18 17 (Jesus)"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." NIV You think that Jesus is the greatest philosopher of all time than you should at least put him on par with the enlightenment thinkers that recognized justice and the execution of justice is essential in every stable society. The enlightenment thinkers that took part in the creation of our nation recognized that government derive their just powers from the men in order to protect the rights of society. And therefore with the powers that the government have the need to protect the rights of every individual , the right to LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PERSUITE OF HAPPINESS. Those women who made the decision to have consensual sex acknowledge the risks involved acknowledged that there were ways to effectively eliminate those whisk, and proceeded to have intercourse. She was able to pursuit her happiness. And now the individual that will come fourth because of that decision whether good or bad has the same rights to pursuit, happiness, liberty and above all life, should be entitle the same rights that she has. But if you are to say that if that baby were to be born it would take away her right to happiness and therefore the government should legalize the abortion your in the wrong. Because the government is given powers to take rights away in order to ensure certain essential rights of the whole. The government takes the right to kill another person away in order to protect that right of the other person to live. It's way murder is a crime, and it's why abortion should be illegal. The way the government goes about protecting the rights of us as an individual I think is fair. The goal is not only to stop that person from committing another crime- otherwise we would it a detention system; but also to bring about Justice which the American Heritage Dictionary defines as : "The upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law." Justice to administer to that person a treatment that he deserves because of the crime he committed. Its why ‘it' is called a Justice system. I think you are incorrect when you say that the duty of the law stops when we ensure the person is locked up and can never commit that crime again. The family doesn't receive the equitable Justice. That person maliciously took the life of their loved one, infant, child, son, mother-Father. Our reaction to that once they have been tried by a court of law, and it has been determined through a thorough process of adjudication concluding with a verdict of a jury of twelve peers. Our reaction to that must be to administer justice, to give him the treatment that is congruent with the crime committed, Justice is not just for the convict , but for the family, for the society- for all of us as citizens under a common law. There is a place in our society for the death penalty, it is our reserved response, or reserved prescription for justice for when the history of an individual has taken such an adverse path to such lengths that it has proceeded to terminate the life of another individual. Pro-life isn't a modern day decision. pro-life is the stance our founding fathers took when they were framing the constitution, pro-life is the stance that the second continental congress took when they were ratified the declaration of independence as the document that would propel this land forward as an independent nation, the document that would serve as the foundation of the ideals of a new society. I reject to believe that they only sought to protect the life of those who could advocate for their own life. I reject to believe that they felt entitled to administer Justice only for those who could ask of it for themselves. I think our founding fathers wanted Life and Liberty for everyone , even those who relied on other people to fight for that Liberty. That is something that this country proved to stand by when it finally brought down slavery, and I think that is something that this country will continue to stand by, or laws or justice and our liberty- for everyone.