I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.