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[68k]

I would have made the sentence a public lashing lasting at least 10 minutes - now that's punishment. People get away with things too easily today.

[Shane Nokes]

Indeed. There are a few countries were public punishment and shaming still happen...and those countries have very low crime rates. People HATE being shamed in front of everyone.

[TechJunkie81]

He should pick Peter Griffin's "Church of the Fonze".

[Colin McGregor]

Asrokhel, on 17 November 2012 - 17:53, said:

Forcing your religious views on someone is wrong!

I know right. The kid is better off rotting in jail then going to a church. Damn people and their forceful ways /s

[mmjm]

Well it's Oklahoma, not surprising at all although when I lived there I had to go to church a few times, just by observing I don't think going to church fixed half of the congreation's... issues. And in Arkansas I had people tell me their particular brand of Christianity was right and mine was wrong.

On other hand, the Founding Fathers were largely masons. Masons cannot be atheist, they have to hold some belief in a deity to be part of the masonic order. I think it was Jefferson who was a deist and staunchly anti-religion of any kind

Colin McGregor, on 19 November 2012 - 01:09, said:

I know right. The kid is better off rotting in jail then going to a church. Damn people and their forceful ways /s

the kid might also be an atheist...

[Calum]

~Johnny, on 19 November 2012 - 00:44, said:

He's not assuming everyone is religious. The point is not to make the person to believe in a god, but to try and make them think about their life and the impact on others. Churches are good places for self reflection.

But there is secular help and there are secular places that are good places for self-reflection, so why did this have to be a church?

[@Leo]

zivan56, on 18 November 2012 - 23:00, said:

This. The judge is assuming everyone is religious, which is fundamentally wrong. The judge is also telling the person to provide service only to a select part of the community in which he offended, not the community as a whole. Quite shocking, I certainly hope the article is only the half-truth...

Only in uhhmerica.

[SPEhosting]

Detection, on 17 November 2012 - 17:58, said:

Judge will twist if he decides on a devil worshipping / spiritualist church

I would go for a buddist temple I mean fml poor guy all he did was kill someone and he has to suffer church what the judge did should be illegal

[S00N3R FR3AK]

I like it, most Sunday sermons deal with the moral lessons of the Bible, and prison is not the best place to rehab everyone.

[LogicalApex]

John S., on 17 November 2012 - 23:33, said:

Judges don't make laws, no law respecting the establishment of any religion was made here. Nice try quoting the phrase that doesn't exist anywhere in America's foundational documents though.

That's inaccurate. Under English Common Law, the system that American jurisprudence is based upon, Judges do make law. As such, American Judges do create law.

It is the ugly side of the system... A wart if you will.

[Yogurtmaster]

Asrokhel, on 17 November 2012 - 17:53, said:

Forcing your religious views on someone is wrong!

He could have sent him in the military instead.