On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer made the case that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death following his conviction for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing in the most Fischer-esque way possible: explaining that Noah's Flood was the result of society not using the death penalty.
As Fischer explained it, "God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind.
"When people say we ought to just get rid of the death penalty, we just ought to get rid of capital punishment and society would be so much better off," he said, "well, we tried that; we tried that from the creation to Adam until the Flood ... And what happened? It was chaos. It was vigilante justice. And people began killing other people simply because they got insulted or because they got injured or because they got wounded. So there was no sense of proportionality, justice was a matter of each man talking the law into his own hands. It was total chaos and the result was the entire world had become so corrupt that God had to wipe the whole thing out and start over"
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Bryan Fischer and his god-talk are full of it, and we don't need any more "imaginary flood" stories for childish theists, thankyewverymuch. While I have no love for Tsarnaev, I think a dead Tsarnaev would be a martyr and an inspiration for other such terrorists. Tsarnaev bottled up in prison to rot, out of sight, out of contact, and forgotten, would be the ideal outcome.
"God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind.
So you're saying that God fucked up ?
Gobs is all-powerful, according to your storybook. It could cause the corruption in the world to spontaneously poof out of existence, but it decided to flood us instead.
Wait, I see why it didn't poof all corruption out of existence. Because then Gobs would also cease to exist.
Look, I have no problem with killing this terrorist POS. But that is one of the oddest tangents I ever did hear. Not only is Fischer defending the mythical flood, but he ignores the actual reason given by the Torah for the flood: Nephilim.
There is no mention of the death penalty in Genesis, favorable or unfavorable, before the story of Noah. So I can only conclude one of 3 things: 1) Bryan Fischer is reinterpreting the fact that God did not kill Cain to mean that God prohibited the death penalty; 2) Bryan Fischer thinks that the lack of the death penalty is wicked and this was the same wickedness for which the earth was punished during the Flood; or 3) Bryan Fischer just pulled this out of his ass.
As Fischer explained it, "God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind.
Are you implying the flood was God's attempt in fixing His own mistake? Are you saying God makes mistakes ?
How the Hell would those pre flood people know Gods wishes? No Bibles, no churchs, no word and a God who deigns to speak to one man and only for a little bit.
Again, the holes in that myth are piled on a hundredfold.
Yet another bloodthirsty Christian writing his own beliefs into the bible in order to make God agree with him.
Do you really think Jesus would be in favor of capital punishment after what happened to him?
I love how they make up junk to fill in the blanks of the "sins" of the antediluvian world. All the Bible says is that women mated with angels & everybody was super-violent and "thought of violence constantly".
To get rid of the death penalty is pretty anti-violence, if you ask me.
Frankly, the jerk should just get "Life" because killing him is what he would WANT.
++"As Fischer explained it, "God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind."
Wait, wait, wait... so you're saying that god made a mistake. Bryan, do you have any idea what that means for your "perfect god" and his "infallible word"?
++"And people began killing other people simply because they got insulted or because they got injured or because they got wounded."
Yeah. Because we certainly don't see an epidemic of that sort of behavior in the death penalty-happy theocracies of the world.
Oh wait.
"When people say we ought to just get rid of the death penalty, we just ought to get rid of capital punishment and society would be so much better off," he said, "well, we tried that; we tried that from the creation to Adam until the Flood ... And what happened?"
Where is this stated in your bible?
Evidence of the chaos, please.
People are killing other people right now simply because they got insulted. Mostly religious people. Mostly in countries that still have the death penalty.
Why does lack of the government murdering people mean "each man talking[sic] the law into his own hands"? Most of Europe doesn't have the death penalty, and I bet most of it has fewer prisoner per capita than the US, Turkey, or Saudi Arabia. Why only "each man"; what about women?
Had all the animals and the plants, all the fungi and the bacteria become so corrupt too? If God could poof the whole world into existence, couldn't he have poofed all the corrupt people out of it?
"God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind.
This God guy sounds like a terrible planner, and a homicidal asshole.
So God made a mistake, and is therefore not omnipotent, and so is therefore not God. Thanks Fisher, keep up the good work, you provide great proof for the non-existence of God.
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