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- RE
- Capitol Punishment
- Islamic
- No
- In the Shari’ah (Islamic law) it says that the murder victims’ family can accept blood money from the murderer instead of death (retribution)
- The Quran doesn’t make capital punishment compulsory, it recommends it
- Yes
- Muhammad made several statements agreeing with capital punishment
- The Quran says that death is the punishment for murder, adultery and denying Islam
- Muhammed sentenced people to death
- No
- Christian
- Yes
- The Old Testament gives the death penalty as the punishment for various offences
- St Thomas Aquinas said that protecting society is a more important part of punishment than the reform of criminals
- The Church has used capital punishment the past
- No
- Christianity teaches that life is sacred, if abortion and euthanasia are wrong then so is capital punishment
- Jesus said eye for eye, tooth for tooth is wrong
- Jesus came to save sinners; you can’t reform the dead
- Yes
- Non relgious
- No
- Courts convict innocent people- nothing can release an innocent person who has been executed
- Stats show countries that don’t use the death penalty have lower murder rates
- Murderers don’t expect to be caught when they commit their murders
- Murderers try to commit suicide when they are serving life imprisonment, so prison must be a worse sentence than death
- Yes
- If murderers are executed, they are no longer a threat to society
- The only punishment to fit the crime of taking a life is to take the murderers life
- If people know they’ll die if they murder someone, they’ll not murder
- No
- Islamic
- Unanswered Prayers
- If people don’t feel God’s presence or they aren’t answered they may feel that no one is listening and loose faith
- If you pray for selfish things then God will not help you
- Your prayer may not seem to be answered because God has a different plan
- God may answer prayers by giving people what they need not what they want
- If people don’t feel God’s presence or they aren’t answered they may feel that no one is listening and loose faith
- Evil and Suffering
- Natural Evil not caused by humans e.g. earthquakes
- Moral Evil caused by humans e.g. murder
- God?
- Natural Evil not caused by humans e.g. earthquakes
- Why would a good and powerful God create evil and suffering
- God?
- Religion
- If god is omni-benevolent it aught not to want evil and suffering in the world
- If God is Omnipotent then it should be able to get rid of evil an suffering from the world it created
- If God is omniscient they it must have known that evil and suffering would come into the universe and should have created it differently
- BUT there is evil and suffering in the world so either there is no god or it is not all powerful or all knowing
- God?
- Why would a good and powerful God create evil and suffering
- God?
- Christian Responses
- 1. Help by following Jesus through
- Prayer- asking God to help those who suffer (intercession
- Service (actively helping those who suffer)- many organise food and clothing for the homeless and raise money for those in less developed countries,help in hospitals,etc
- 2. By giving humans free will God created a world in which evil and suffering can happen. Evil and suffering are cause by humans not god
- 3. Life is a short test preparing people’s souls for heaven. Evil and suffering need to be faced for people to become good, kind and loving. God will reward them in heaven
- 4. Only God knows and understands why there is evil
- 1. Help by following Jesus through
- Capitol Punishment
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