Trials and Errors

Well everyone, it is a Thursday morning in October and I am starting my day mad at Pope Francis. It is not really anything personal except he told everyone that the death penalty is wrong and contrary to  the gospel and Christianity. I think he is the one who is wrong this time, not the death penalty, and people who do what they are supposed to and are morally secure have no problem sending murderers, child abusers, and rapists onward to Judgement Day for God to decide what is next for them. And one of those reasons is that there might not be a bad enough punishment possible for them on earth. As much as people want to seem compassionate by saying it is no one's right to take another life, the fact is that the humane thing to do is to rid our streets of rapists and murderers and to trust that there can be more justice and mercy beyond this world. So really the thing that is not Christian is thinking that all we see is all there is and everything is up to us in such a way that we have to be too careful to do what is right and err on the side of letting traffickers and heroin dealers ruin everyone's lives. There are horrible things happening in our country, and I think the real question before us these days is not whether the death penalty is moral, but whether the murderers and rapists should still get a trial beforehand.