Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00029)

ramadoss@infohwy.com quoted:
> if it punishes murder with death, the juryman,
> in deciding for a verdict of guilty, of necessity
> becomes an accessory in a fresh murder. But
> the "heart" of the people is beginning to
> protest against this "eye for an eye" code and
> is refusing to render evil for evil. Capital
> punishment is nothing but a relic of Jewish
> barbarity. 

Which shows, on the part of the writer, a major ignorance of Jewish
theology. In Judaism, the Talmud (which, traditionally, was given at the
same time as the so-called "Old Testament") is just as important, and
expands greatly on the laws outlined therein. The "eye for an eye" is a
law of REPLACEMENT, not revenge, and a call for equal compensation, not
equal loss. 

Bart Lidofsky