Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Dennis Prager
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  1. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

  2. Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

  3. We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently. Faith in any god who makes any other primary demand...

  4. Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

  5. Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

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