{"id":8,"date":"2015-12-14T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billgavlas.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:41:49","slug":"death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can someone claim to be a Christian and, at the same time, support capital punishment?\u00a0 The person who started the religion they belong to was a criminal and killed through the use of capital punishment.\u00a0 Would a Christian want that to happen again?<\/p>\n<p>Christians are normally against abortion and euthanasia which makes them pro-life.\u00a0 How can a Christian be pro-life and pro-death (capital punishment)?\u00a0 It would seem as though that Christian has severely compromised themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem, if someone were really paying attention, that our government and courts screw things up so bad, we should never trust them with capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">\u00a9 <span style=\"font-size: small;\"> 2007-2015 Bill Gavlas, American Professional Services &#8211; All content of this website is copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any manner without the express written permission of the author<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can someone claim to be a Christian and, at the same time, support capital punishment?\u00a0 The person who started the religion they belong to was a criminal and killed through the use of capital punishment.\u00a0 Would a Christian want that to happen again? Christians are normally against abortion and euthanasia which makes them pro-life.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/death-penalty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death Penalty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706uH-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billgavlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}