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America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates...

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates...By Louis A. RuprechtPosted on May 18, 2009, Printed on May 18, 2009http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/1216/It is one of the more striking features of the poorly-named ?Western tradition? that two of its foundational stories both involve an act of extraordinary injustice and an ultimately, unwarranted, state-sponsored execution. To say that the death penalty lies at the very heart of Western civilization is true, so long as we modify that point: a concern with the death penalty lies at the very heart of Western civilization.That seems an important modification to make, precisely because the United States finds itself in the peculiar position of being the only ?Western? country within its primary coalitions (NAFTA and NATO especially) still to employ the death penalty...continue to full post

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