Crime, Punishment And Capital Punishment. Civilzation And Barbarism /// "The Phenotypic Expression Of Religion Matters More Than Its Dogmatic Genotype"

 

The Sacrament of The Table

Greetings,

Pursuant to tonight's tertulia, here are a few pertinent references.

Maximum prison sentence by country: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Punishment/Maximum-length-of-sentence

Countries that have abolished the death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/international/abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries

The Vatican's position on capital punishment:

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On August 2, 2018, the Vatican announced that it had formally changed the official Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty, calling capital punishment “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and deeming it “inadmissible” in all cases.

The 2018 Revised Catholic Catechism

Percentage of Catholics in Canada and United States: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Religion

Catholics in Quebec:

In 2021, 4.8 million Quebecers (54 per cent of the population) declared themselves Catholic, compared with 5.8 million (75 per cent) in 2011. There are now 421,710 Muslims in the province, up from 243,430 a decade ago, a 73-per-cent jump. The number of Hindus and Sikhs also grew.Oct 27, 2022 

Catholicism wanes as more Quebecers report being Muslim or ...

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And finally, an essay I wrote over ten years ago.

I think "I'm onto something" here.

But I don't expect you - or others - to share my point of view.

"The Phenotypic Expression Of Religion Matters More Than Its Dogmatic Genotype"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-phenotypic-expression-of-religion.html

Pax et amor

Alan