Comment on [deleted by author] by saarnok

saarnok · 12/16/2025, 12:57:08 AM · permalink

Theologically it makes little difference. Jesus could be killed by a mob (sort of was). The verses you cite have nothing to do with justifying his killing, though perhaps I'm not seeing your point in including them in this context.  
  
After consideration, perhaps you're simply reminded of the killing of Jesus as a peripheral issue you've included here.  
  
The death penalty was practiced throughout the ancient world and was as likely to be considered merciful as not, hence the various inventive means of execution developed.  
  
To answer your direct question... sort of, the very idea that "criminals" would not be executed is a concept that simply could not be developed until the possibility of keeping people alive had become in some sense reasonable.  
  
If you accept the story as written; Jesus was executed according to Roman custom and in accordance with Jewish sensibilities. "The People" had no more to do with the matter than they ever did, which is to say, very little.  
  
In the world to follow heretics of Christianity (false teachers) would be executed according to the Roman law established for currency counterfeiters, burning alive, which they adopted ultimately from the Egyptians.  
  
This would develop into the "[auto da fe](https://www.britannica.com/topic/auto-da-fe)" ritual which persisted some 400 years, with the last recorded instance being in Mexico in 1850, though the obvious parallel to African "[necklacing](https://vocal.media/history/necklacing)" which wasn't restricted to Africa and as you can see if you follow the link the modern leftist tries to justify.  
  
If you had suggested to Christians before that last two hundred years or so that people should not be executed for any number of "crimes", the very best you could hope for would have been a blank stare of incomprehension.  
  
Which you should not take as any critique of Christianity. This is the standard response of human beings towards those who refuse to participate in our shared delusions.... and to criminals... and we can't necessarily tell the difference.

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