53 - The Right to Punishment
Channel: Halting Toward Zion
Date: 2021-01-04

Garibaldi: "Oh, I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador."
Delenn: "So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless?"
Garibaldi: "Not everyone. Just the bad guys."
—“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon 5 (1995)

This Episode Features: An Eye For An Eye; Babylon 5; When Musicians Fight; Demoted From Lounge Lizard; The Sword Is Not For Poking People; Robberbarons vs. Busybodies; Capital Punishment; and Jury Duty.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/2MmVuNP-htz-53

Links:
Babylon 5 S03E04 - "Passing Through Gethsemane": https://amzn.to/3hzTzRy
Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/
Matthew 5: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+5/
Luke 18: https://www.esv.org/Luke+18/
Romans 12-13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+12/
Proverbs 20:22: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20/
Proverbs 24: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+24/
"Piano Man" - Billy Joel: https://youtu.be/QwVjTlTdIDQ
"Would That It Were So Simple" - Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://youtu.be/G629a_3MkkI
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb
God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3hCQ50O
"St. Patrick's Bad Analogies" - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/389mRDM

Recos:
Twelve Angry Men (1957): https://amzn.to/386SRbk
American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand: https://amzn.to/3oamYUS
Earth's Holocaust - Nathaniel Hawthorne: https://amzn.to/388ZDgI