Who says? Where do you get this crap from? Some preacher-of-the-week who's winging it as he goes? Imperfect contrition, while inferior, can be sufficient for salvation.


Potayto, potahto. If perfect contrition was truly required, Heaven would be as empty as Dannymac's arguments.

And I did not remotely argue that it was.
What about the two unusually large women who showed up at the funeral for the mother of two of those disappeared convicts, who stayed a considerable distance from anyone else at the service and whom no one could recognize? The blood is on no one's hands when criminals are put to death by the law. And one murder should be more than sufficient to warrant execution. Solutions such as yours are moral cowardice.

No one is executed for an accidental murder, they are executed for the wanton or willful crimes. The execution of innocent men by the state is only after a rigorous system for trying their guilt has been applied. Such deaths are hardly comparable to the sorts of criminal behavior that warrant execution, and even if by some absurd chance the innocent slip through the cracks, that is simple human nature. To demand perfection of any human institution is absurd. I MIGHT consider these attitudes even slightly morally justifiable if the people who expressed them were not usually the exact same ones unwilling to accept the same fallibility of human investigative processes and demanding that we accept as an absolute given that there are no signs of human life at X point in a pregnancy or that global warming & human evolution are proven and indisputable facts. On THOSE, liberals are perfectly willing to plunge ahead, confident that the proof will catch up to them, but there is never sufficient proof that a shady sketchy character has committed murder, even with over 30 eyewitnesses to his guilt, like Troy Davis.