{"id":6503,"date":"2022-10-03T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:16:29","slug":"retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"Retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Jonathan O&#8217;Toole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming soon!\u00a0 The film portrays a principle that every Christian knows is right and just.  The subject, however, is avoided in the name of, perhaps, civility, politeness, or . . . misguided compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where there is an evildoer, who takes the life of an innocent person, the proper justice is <em>not<\/em> jail or fines;\u00a0 it is death.\u00a0 Death is the just penalty for one who murders another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;Retaliation&#8221; this truth, lost in American justice in general &#8211; and forgotten, apparently &#8211; even by those in an enlightened, Christian world &#8211; is brought to the fore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we must be grateful to Jonathan O&#8217;Toole for this contribution to the effort (by some people &#8220;out there&#8221; here and there) to restore justice to the land!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good work!&nbsp; And may the Lord bless it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MBray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Oct., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan O&#8217;Toole Coming soon!\u00a0 The film portrays a principle that every Christian knows is right and just. The subject, however, is avoided in the name of, perhaps, civility, politeness, or . . . misguided compassion. Where there is an evildoer, who takes the life of an innocent person, the proper justice is not jail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,23,31,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}