Re: Quiiting Christianity but not Christ

Gareth McCaughan wrote:
Phil Saunders wrote:

[Mike Davis:]
However, I am trying to explain that excommunication for some sins
doesn't mean that those sins are more serious than others.

[me:]
And I think Sam Harris is suggesting that it ought to.

Suppose someone complains that a particular nation executes
people for criticizing the monarch, but not for murder. It
wouldn't be much of a defence to say "Ah, but in that nation
execution for some crimes doesn't mean that they're more
serious than others".

[Phil:]
A woman married a British citizen and thus obtained British
citizenship. She was a spy and her passport may well now be
withdrawn.

Other crimes don't result in a British passport being withdrawn,
such as murder, rape and child molestation.

Are you therefore of the view that spying is the more serious crime
under our penal code?

Withdrawal of a UK passport is not the most severe sanction used by
the UK's penal code, so no. Losing one's passport would generally be
considered a less serious punishment than, say, life imprisonment.

Oh really? So having your right to enter or remain in the uk withdrawn is
less severe than a suspended sentence for sexual abuse?

OK if you say so.

In Ireland, a killer can get a suspended sentence

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-stag-trip-killer-gets-suspended-sentence-679651.html

But other crimes warrant imprisonment

In Ireland is killing a person not a serious crime then?

Phil




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