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Offline ByzCat3000

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2019, 05:52:05 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on November 02, 2019, 05:44:04 PM
Look at St. Joseph's attitude toward Our Lady when it appeared to him as if she had been unfaithful.
Well that's why I said it should be the victim's choice.  Obviously St Joseph's attitude would have been during the OT, when death theoretically *was* an option for the crime.  
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Offline Maria Regina

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2019, 07:28:21 PM »
Christ's attitude when He confronted the woman accused of adultery is the proper attitude.

When the people wanted to stone her, He asked the person without sin to toss the first stone.
Then he knelt on the ground supposedly writing the sins of all in the dirt. She was spared
because Christ, the Sinless One, did not toss a stone against her either.

Then Christ admonished her to go and sin no more.

We should be encouraging people to repent much like Christ, St. John the Baptist,
and the Dominican friar, Savonarola.
All three men listed above were executed.
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Offline Flavius Petrus Sabbatius

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2019, 07:46:34 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on November 02, 2019, 05:42:18 PM
If the husband/father commits adultery, what would you do, have him killed or jailed ... and thereby leave the family without financial support?  So the wife and children effectively get punished twice, once by the adultery and a second time by the elimination of the husband/father.

If the wife/mother commits adultery, then the husband and children are punished because now the father becomes a single father and the children have no mother.

So, no, I don't think it's appropriate at all.

Some other penalty could surely be conceived that would punish the perpetrator without re-punishing the victims.
Would your response be the same if the father were to commit murder or sodomy? The fact that one has a family should not excuse that person from the temporal consequences that follow. Where is the justice of God in allowing these workers of iniquity to live?

The family should submit to the will of God in having certain crimes punished with death.
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Offline Nadir

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2019, 09:37:38 PM »
Quote from: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius on November 02, 2019, 07:46:34 PM
Would your response be the same if the father were to commit murder or sodomy? The fact that one has a family should not excuse that person from the temporal consequences that follow. Where is the justice of God in allowing these workers of iniquity to live?

The family should submit to the will of God in having certain crimes punished with death.
Murder and sodomy are not adultery.
Capital punishment is not temporal.
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Offline claudel

Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2019, 11:22:39 PM »
Quote from: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius on November 02, 2019, 07:46:34 PM

Where is the justice of God in allowing these workers of iniquity to live?

The justice of God is where it has always been: inseparable from God, its Author. Need you be reminded that we have it on the highest authority that God's justice is not like man's?

Your patent desire to spill blood for a transgression that Our Lord Himself responded to with uncompromising disapproval leavened with persuasive mercy is redolent more of Islamic savagery than of an attitude appropriate to a Catholic.
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