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My humble opinion:
Many Christians (and people of other kinds of faith) truly want to be good humans. I know many christians. And although for many reasons I personally don't take their faith for me, I do recognize their honest intentions and beautiful hearts.
Then... then we have these scumbags... these abominations that not only abuse (in the general sense), but also target and scar for life the most vulnerable members of our society. These excuses of human beings are a complete waste of air and ~~must be castrated and~~ let to rot in prison.
Edit: Add strike-though. Great points in the comments. I must say I wrote too fast in the heat of the moment. I understand how castration may come from a desire of revenge rather than seeking to eliminate a threat to society. Thanks for the discussion!
Mutilation (including castration) is never okay. Prisons exist for criminals—committing a crime against humanity in retaliation instead is not okay. Also, you can't un-mutilate someone (in most cases), and the law makes mistakes.
Yes, somebody else also pointed out that we cannot trust the legal system to sentence the correct person (either due to corruption or legitimate mistakes).
Under the perspective of the "not undoable punishment". Is the death penalty also, never acceptable, or is there some nuance, in your opinion?
Thanks for the discussion :)
Their holy book is filled with rape, murder, genocide, incest, and ritualized cannibalism in the name of their god. It ends with them going to heaven while everyone else gets burned for eternity. There probably are decent people who get involved, but their decency does not stem from their religion. It’s a psychological coping mechanism that has become a good old boys club that holds itself as morally unaccountable to anyone but god for their actions. In the real world, people expect others to either not be an asshole, or if they are, actually atone by paying the consequences and change their ways, not just whisper some words to the sky and announce “all good, I’m forgiven”. You can insert a lot of other religions in here- do wrong, be sheltered from consequences by your cult, or if even they can’t protect you, double down on refusing to take accountability because you don’t think you answer to other humans.
wow, that's new for me, would you mind to elaborate?
The rest, good points. You touched several reasons why I don't endorse their faith myself.
Thanks for the comment
The ritualized cannibalism bit is transubstantiation, the belief that the blood(wine) and body(bread) of Jesus turn into his real blood and body during consecration in catholic mass.
But you could make a dig into it overall just beacuase the bread and wine are symbolic ritual cannibalism, very culty sounding when you look at it from another angle.
As you said though, that's a Catholic tradition, not Christianity as a whole, and it isn't directly supported by the Bible. Its their unique interpretation of the act of communion. The actual text seems pretty metaphorical IMO.
Communion is not really just a catholic tradition, and it is not a wild interpretation to make when a dude says these 2 things sybolically represent my flesh and blood, calling the whole ritual symbolic cannibalism is not a stretch.