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What Does An ‘Eye For An Eye’ Really Mean?

Sunday, September 20, 2015 3:12
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I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution.

—Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988)

But modern man believes that he is wiser than God. . . .

So he relies on prisons to do the work of restoration

—Gary North, Victim’s Rights (1990)

We are often told that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. This isn’t completely true. What the Amendment actually says is this:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

What Does An 'Eye For An Eye' Really Mean?

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The 13th Amendment still allows for involuntary servitude, slavery, as a punishment for certain crimes. It doesn’t specify the nature of this service, but the courts have assumed it includes, at the very least, incarceration for certain felonies. After all, by 1865 penitentiaries were firmly entrenched in the American justice system.

The 19th century American penitentiary differed from all earlier prisons. It wasn’t designed to punish the inmate but to move him toward spiritual reflection, conviction and reformation.

Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/religion/what-does-an-eye-for-an-eye-really-mean/

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