An excellent and informative essay. One of the interesting bits: "And [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Scalia declared that the death penalty is God's will. 'The more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral,' he observed. 'I attribute that to the fact that, for the believing Christian, death is no big deal.'" Hmm. What about the decidedly un-Christian People's Republic of China? Or Saudi Arabia? Lots and lots of Christians there in Saudi Arabia, I guess; they even execute people the good ol' fashioned way--by beheading, with a nice sharp sword, just like in the Bible. And those guys who flew the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon four years ago . . . obviously, death was "no big deal" to them. They must have been "believing Christian"s.

I feel like praying . . . Jesus Christ save us from all of these assholes.