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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

— William Blake

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

— Tammy Faye Bakker

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

— Robert Duvall

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

— John Howard

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

— Jan Hus

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

— Tom T. Hall

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

— John Ashcroft

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

— Geoffrey Fisher

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

✗Opposing Perspectives

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

— Wole Soyinka