Christians supporting the death penalty is just another example showing that christians don't actually get their sense of morality from a book. They go with what they feel and then attempt to justify it via their religion. Given that the bible is so ambigious and is (apparently) symbolic and metaphorical in places where it is decidedly un-ambigious, it is easy to justify just about anything, given the right spin.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
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