The media makes us all into fools, and nothing proves that better than the so-called ‘debate’ on the death penalty. You see, if you just go and read the accounts of the ones who have killed others in cold blood then you get an idea that for some people the only way for them to make it into heaven is if they are shackled and bound and stuck in a windowless, moldy hole and eventually killed.
It is impossible for people to simultaneously believe that good virtues make one deserving of heaven if you also believe that people with bad virtues will go there as well. What has to happen to those people who commit crimes of murder is that first they have to be brought to their senses. This requires them to be deprived of the sensual delights that are available to everyone else. Over time this will ususally cause a redeemable person to reflect upon why it is they are in the situation they find themselves in the first place. Then after they come to their senses about why it is they are living a life in utter hell then they will be granted a pass to heaven by paying for what they did with their own life.
I hope everyone understands that capital punishment is not about revenge, rather it is about helping people pay for what they did so as to give them a chance to go to heaven. Once their debt is paid after having confessed then if there truly is a God then they will surely be eligible for there hereafter. This is what makes me angry at the islamic faith, because if they think that by taking others with them to heaven they are going to heaven then this is like saying that if paradise were interpreted by some jerkoff religion as a juicy steak then you would be expected to kill as many cows as is humanly possible. Then of course there would be no more cows left, and then nobody would go be able to go to heave. Simply put a religion based on this kind of bullshit would simply cease to exist (along with the cows).
Sure, it’s oversimplification to believe that anybody knows what happens to us after we die. But our instincts tell us that just to be on the safe side we need to hedge our bets. Maybe that’s why God stuck us on this tiny planet in the middle of the universe all by our lonesome selves. So that for those of us who realize that the only way out of here is death, and that nobody can tell us when and how that is going to occur then the mystery itself is supposed to be something that we are responsible for understanding, not somebody else with a gun in their hand. Life is far too complicated and filled with far too many contradictions to simply dismiss it as being a myth of no consequence at all. Life is a miracle, and for those who do not understand this concept then think of the process that got you to where you are today: The myriad of behavioral mores, education, philosophical arguments, revolutions, inventions, and sheer will power that determined who shall live and who shall die. Nowhere will you be able to understand your life better by understanding those who take matters into their own hands and think they got away with it.
One of the greatest examples of murder in recent history is the holocaust. Some might argue that the holocaust laid the precedent for the creation of Israel, and were it not for the holocaust then Israel would not exist. In short, one of the world’s greatest genocides gave birth to a nation that without which the genocide would have probably continued, and future genocides would probably have gone unnoticed. But this argument is short-lived, because the difference between the age before World War II and the one after is that people did not seem to care about issues of the afterlife, and now they do.
If you want to go to heaven, if you want to have life everlasting, if you want to be guaranteed to avoid the void of time and space for eternity then all you have to do are two things: One, bring killers to their rightful fate, and two, give everyone who knows justice in the first person present tense the respect they deserve. If the science of DNA has taught us anything it is the fact that we are all connected, and as such when the time comes to grab hold of the unbroken chain that keeps you connected to life then just make sure you have done the right thing. It’s just that some of us need more than others in order to guarantee them an eternal place in life. Once killers have paid the price, they are in my opinion just as eligible for the afterlife as anybody else.
-TDN


































