Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On Punishment, Torture, Vice, Viciousness And "The Good"

"We are not punished for our sins.

We are punished by our sins."

"Virtue is its own reward.

Vice is its own punishment."

(Note that the word "vice" is the etymological root of "vicious.")

Punishment Rarely Reforms But Instead Tends To Reinforce Wrongdoing

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/punishment-rarely-reforms-but-instead.html

How The Urge To Punish Islamics For Being Islamic Promotes Terrorism

NPR

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-urge-to-punish-islamics-for-being.html

Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/best-pax-posts-on-punishment-and.html

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/conservative-christians-delight-in_9.html

America's Passion For Punishment And Torture
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html

Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love & Forgiveness, Or Retribution And Punishment

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/christians-and-christians-must-choose.html

Bad Things Happen: Punishment, Mercy And The Demise Of The Republican Party

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-things-happen-punishment-mercy-and.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

We Are Not Punished For Our Sins

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/02/we-are-not-punished-for-our-sins.html?m=1

Christians Ignore Jesus' Direct "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/christians-ignore-jesus-commandments.html

Jesus Rails Against Human Traditions Of "Our Great Leaders Who Lived Long Ago" 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/jesus-rails-againt-human-traditions-of.html

The Gospels With The Words Of Jesus In Red

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-gospels-with-words-of-jesus-in-red.html

Everything Jesus And The Apostles Had To Say About "The Rich" And "The Poor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/everything-jesus-and-apostles-had-to_13.html

Jesus Walks Back Comments On Poor

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/jesus-walks-back-his-comments-on-poor.html

Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-your-enemies-do-good-to-those-who.html

"Twelve Steps For The Recovering Pharisee (Like Me)" By John Fischer

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/12-steps-for-recovering-pharisee-like.html

"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?"

Jesus of Nazareth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-you-know-what-youre-doing-to-me.html

"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/pope-francis-on-finance-economics.html

Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/frank-zappa-profesied-fascist-theocracy.html

The United States Is A Singularly Cruel, Vengeful Nation. Solitary Confinement For Kids

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/america-is-singularly-cruel-vengeful.html

Time For Catholicism To "Shelve" Traditions And Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

11 Bible Verses That Turn Christians Into Atheists
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/11-bible-verses-that-turn-christians.html

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

"Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," A Glimpse Of True Christianity
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/amish-grace-how-forgiveness-transcended.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"Why The Bible Belt Is Delusional"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-bible-belt-is-delusional.html

"God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/god-enjoys-10-plagues-way-too-much.html

ISIS And The Inquisition: The Shadow Side Of Religion. Why Does Belief Do This?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-and-inquisition-shadow-side-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

Seldom Sermonized Bible Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/seldom-sermonized-bible-verses.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Miscarriage Of Justice And Misplaced Punishment

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on_20.html

Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/best-pax-posts-on-punishment-and.html

"There is no fear in love. 
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 
The one who fears is not made perfect in love."

1 John 4:18

It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/it-is-important-to-know-these-things-so.html

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-way-too-many-christians-get-wrong.html

bibblers

Jesus: Festive Tippler And Friend Of Whores, Publicans, Tax Collectors And Sundry Sinners

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-festive-wine-bibber-and-friend-of.html

How "the plank" got there.

(An inside job!)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:3-5&version=NIV

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/any-religion-that-needs-fear-to-thrive.html

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

Biblical Literalism: Not Only Impossible But Destructive Of Meaning And Souls

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/biblical-literalism-not-only-impossible.html

UNC-CH Professor Bart D. Ehrman:

Biblical Exegete And Former Christian Evangelical

The Bible and Textual Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

Religion and Perfectionism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/religion-and-perfectionism.html

"Good Romans" Considered Jesus' Torture Necessary For Imperial Safety

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-jesus-was-tortured-good-romans.html

Americans, Especially Catholics, Approve Of Inquisitorial Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/americans-especially-catholics-approve.html

"To Kill A Mockingbird's" Harper Lee On The Bible As An Obstacle To Living

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2016-03-11T19:40:00-05:00&max-results=7

The Bible's Apparent Promise Of Armageddon Is Conservative Christianity's Excuse To Do Nothing

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-bibles-apparent-promise-of.html

People Want To Be Lied To: The Convergent Horror Of Faithful Falsehood And Aggressive Ignorance

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/people-want-to-be-lied-to-convergent.html

Faith and Falsehood

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/faith-and-falsehood.html

Bill McKibben "The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/bill-mckibben-christian-paradox-how.html

James' Epistle: "Judgment Without Mercy Will Be Shown To Anyone Who Has Not Shown Mercy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/james-epistle-judgment-without-mercy.html

American Conservatives And Aggressive Ignorance

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/american-conservatives-and-aggressive.html

"My Gripe With Christianity"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-christianity.html

The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-christian-doctrine-of-damnation-and.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

The Obsolescence Of God:

Good Religion And Bad

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/11/obsolescence-of-god-good-religion-and.html

"Has America Lost Its Mind?" 1A's Brilliant Interview With "Fantasyland's" Kurt Andersen
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/has-america-lost-its-mind-1as-brilliant.html

Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/televangelist-jim-bakker-resurrected-if.html

Many Christians Live In An Unbreakable Bubble Of Biblical And Theological Dunderheadedness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/many-christians-live-in-unbreakable.html

The Thinking Housewife Almost Never Mentions Mercy, Love, Compassion Or Forgiveness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-thinking-housewife-almost-never.html

"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/whom-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make.html