Wow. You shine a strong light on it. With respect to capital punishment, I suspect "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" has been used to justify the alibi, when it signifies the opposite: maybe they didn't know what they did THEN, but we, with the privilege of reading the scripture, SHOULD know. Going back to the Ten Commandments we should have known not to kill, and Jesus picked up the thread by speaking against stoning the adulterous woman. It's astonishing that anyone claiming to adhere to Judaeo-Christian morals can fail to notice that the central image of Christianity is the brutal crucifixion of an innocent man.
Wow. You shine a strong light on it. With respect to capital punishment, I suspect "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" has been used to justify the alibi, when it signifies the opposite: maybe they didn't know what they did THEN, but we, with the privilege of reading the scripture, SHOULD know. Going back to the Ten Commandments we should have known not to kill, and Jesus picked up the thread by speaking against stoning the adulterous woman. It's astonishing that anyone claiming to adhere to Judaeo-Christian morals can fail to notice that the central image of Christianity is the brutal crucifixion of an innocent man.