'Judge Wisely'

Rita Manley,

Take care Rita, get well soon.

IN REPLY TO (IRT)
Charles "Chuck" Colson
'Judge Wisely'
POSTED July 17, 2009

IRT:
“A person's religion, gender, or ethnicity should have no impact on his or her judicial rulings. It is not that you separate those things out from your life--they are integral to it.”

ANS:
Is there not such thing as mercy, and isn’t the greatest Judge of mankind endowed with Mercy as well as Justice? So should Justice be tempered by Mercy?

Is Mercy not part of one‘s life experiences and might Mercy impact on the judge’s conclusion? I believe that is a possibility when judging cases where there isn’t a mandatory penalty. Have not many justices complained about not having any latitude when the circumstances vary?

Thus, if the circumstances of the law are not specifically prescribed, wouldn’t the Judge‘s life experiences have some impact? Namely, take the case of human death. It can be determined in the light of negligence, suicide, manslaughter, homicide, or murder. What life experiences would impact on the judge's decision in determining the kind of death that occurred?

I wonder what Sotomayor would have to say about her heart if she made the judgment of the Adulterous Woman in Scripture.

"My name is Rita Manley, God saved my life 5 times, and so did all the doctors and nurses at Baptist , Sacred Heart , West Florida Hospital in Pensacola,Humana Hospital in Ft Walton, and Swedish medical Center in Seattle, Wa"

Depends on how you look at it; perhaps the reality is that god tried, and failed, to kill you five times.

Rita Manley, I am very glad that God saved your life. May you continue to be blessed.

However, I take exception to your statement that Colin's comment was offensive. It might have been offensive to you, but he neither cursed nor used filthy language. Just because people disagree with someone does not mean that they should be reported as being offensive.

This is America. We are free to believe in God or not as we so choose. Some people believe in Jesus - some believe in 1 true God (but not that Jesus was divine or part of a trinity); some believe in Allah; some in the Goddess; still others believe in nothing. We all live here together - no matter what we believe.

Again, may God continue to bless you.

I feel that a offensive comment was made by Colin Nicholas who made the comment how can faith be the most important thing in your life.
My name is Rita Manley, God saved my life 5 times, and so did all the doctors and nurses at Baptist , Sacred Heart , West Florida Hospital in Pensacola,Humana Hospital in Ft Walton, and Swedish medical Center in Seattle, Wa

How can your faith be the most important single thing in your life? What about other people? What about reality, and real things?
And what if you picked the wrong religion? Maybe Islam is the true faith and you are an infidel. And maybe Allah really does hate infidels. Or perhaps the one true God is Rama. Or even Huitzilopochtli. How could we know? Come to that - maybe there is no God. Did you ever give that any consideration?
Why would a man like you believe in a sky God, and Satan, and angels and everlasting life? It's obviously a scam of gigantic proportions, and hard to believe that you - with your life experiences - wouldn't spot a scam like that in ten seconds flat.