What?!!

I’m not sure what kind of good men you’ve been around, but in my neighbourhood, good men don’t molest any kids.

I have a hard time with the concept of forgivness for the crimes of incest and rape yet what if it was my son who was accused. Would I want forgiveness for him?

I have a hard time with parents who sacrifice their children for sex. With so much evil in the world, it is hard to truly follow the Savior and forgive others.

We are given the stewardship to watch over our children and protect them. The issue is not forgiveness in not letting a child molester out to do it again, to a child. It is our responsibility to protect them. One can forgive without allowing it to happen again. Would you let a known predator have access to your child, without your supervision?

If your child who was accused of rape, would you support harsh punishment? The desire to punish those who commit crimes does not fit the imagine of followers of a man who preached forgiveness and do unto others as you would done unto you.

Jesus preach a religion of love and forgiveness. Do you really follow what you preach?

Yes, the key being “as far as it is translated correctly”. However I don’t believe the ACTIONS of everyone in the Bible are the “word of God”. He has given us, all of us, freedom to choose how to act.

Are you implying that if a child is molested, we won’t see it in the next life? That statement just isn’t relative to the question.

that’s because people are answering what they think the poll says, not what it really does.

Sally just said it in #24.

Sally, since you made the distinction between the murder of a child and murder in general, do you believe the murder of a child to be different than murder in general?

I don’t think anyone believes this, here. I certainly don’t. I just feel that a child molester is as bad as a murderer. I know I may be alone in this opinion (or at least in the minority) but my stance is on the perpetrator of the crime, not which is worse for the child or the family. I would never presume to make that decision for anyone.

Given the opinion that death eliminates suffering and that we will see our loved ones in the afterlife, it seems that murder is the lesser of many, many other evils.