Dreadsox said:Ben Franklin was a deist. He was not a Christian. Having him call for a prayer, does not necessarily mean that he was calling for a Christian prayer.
So he was allowing religion to factor in just not Judeo-Christian belief?
Dreadsox said:Ben Franklin was a deist. He was not a Christian. Having him call for a prayer, does not necessarily mean that he was calling for a Christian prayer.
Dreadsox said:The death penalty existed in Rome......long before Christianity.
How does that make it a Judeo-Christian Concept?
Dreadsox said:Didn't Rome exist before Christianity? If so, then it has more to do with the death penalty than any Christian belief.
Gen. 9:5,6 :5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made man.
Dreadsox said:I would go a step further....
There are tablets that pre-exist Genesis with the the Eye for an Eye concept.
It is hardly a concept that historically is attributed only to the jewish tradition.