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Question about the law/ forgiveness

  • 16-09-2011 5:51pm
    #1
    Computer Sci
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭


    If somebody burned down a church and was tried in court for arson and destruction of property, but asked the proprietors, the priest and the church for forgiveness, and the priest/ church choose to forgive them – would that person still be put into prison, despite been given the forgiveness of the priest/ church?


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  • #2
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Computer Sci wrote: »
    If somebody burned down a church and was tried in court for arson and destruction of property, but asked the proprietors, the priest and the church for forgiveness, and the priest/ church choose to forgive them – would that person still be put into prison, despite been given the forgiveness of the priest/ church?

    Of course. Churches and priests have nothing to do with the law.


  • #3
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,532 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Skunkle wrote: »
    Of course. Churches and priests have nothing to do with the law.

    Well thats that then...../thread


  • #4
    xoxyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    Doesn't matter who forgives you. You still have to pay for your actions within the meaning of the law.

    (As your attorney, I'd advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of LA for at least 48 hours. And you'll need the cocaine... Blows my weekend.)


  • #5
    Thatnastyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Thatnastyboy


    xoxyx wrote: »
    Doesn't matter who forgives you. You still have to pay for your actions within the meaning of the law.

    (As your attorney, I'd advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of LA for at least 48 hours. And you'll need the cocaine... Blows my weekend.)


    we had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and i knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

    :D


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Don't go to bed with a price on your head.
    Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRa9uhiAPBs


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  • #7
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Priests aren't the police op, of course he'd go to jail. but at least when he gets killed in prison he'll go to heaven.


  • #8
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,606 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Computer Sci wrote: »
    If somebody burned down a church and was tried in court for arson and destruction of property, but asked the proprietors, the priest and the church for forgiveness, and the priest/ church choose to forgive them – would that person still be put into prison, despite been given the forgiveness of the priest/ church?

    Which particular church are you thinking of burning down as a matter of interest?


  • #9
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Computer Sci wrote: »
    If somebody burned down a church and was tried in court for arson and destruction of property, but asked the proprietors, the priest and the church for forgiveness, and the priest/ church choose to forgive them – would that person still be put into prison, despite been given the forgiveness of the priest/ church?

    Courtesy of boards.ie's resident bishop.
    PDN wrote:
    Not at all. Forgiveness does not absolve the criminal from paying the legal penalty for his crime.

    For example, if you steal my car then, as a Christian I have to forgive you in that I cannot hold bitterness against you. But any civilised state will arrest you and haul your sorry ass through the courts.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66491267&postcount=3


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