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1. The wild thing is, the Apostle Paul was likely a brown man, and he was also a murderer at worse and an accomplice of murder at best. If White pro-life evangelicals lived during his day; they’d be calling for him to be extracted from the Mission Field, arrested, & electrocuted.
2. When a white man kills, esp kills a black or POC, White America expects black people to “exercise” their faith & unconditionally forgive. For them however, when a black or POC kills, finds Jesus, becomes a prison minister, exercising faith is calling for capital punishment.
3. There are so many layers of the weaponization of Christianity within White expressions of faith that to break them all down would take volumes text books. At every turn, Christianity has been a tool for the exaltation of whiteness, white power, & white comfort. It’s so wild.
4. There’s no justice in capital punishment. Taking the life of another doesn’t bring back life taken & the pain loved ones feel isn’t felt by murderer, it’s just transferred to murderer’s family. It doesn’t end pain, in compounds it & places its weight on other innocent people.
5. I was taught, within white evangelical spaces, that life was so sacred that when it was taken the offender forfeits their life. These same folks are now defending police officers that killed unarmed black people tho, so that philosophy was clearly motivated by something else.
6. A society, and a church, that truly believes human life is sacred will not relinquish that conviction when they face someone who doesn’t value it the same. It will prove its resolve through treating sacred the life of someone who doesn’t view human life as such.
7. Far greater expressions of Justice & restitution can be found in punishment’s other than death, rehabilitation, & contributions to society & family’s who’ve they’ve taken a loved one from than the superficial peace that comes from seeing them die too.
