As reported here, a jury’s decision to sentence a convicted rapist and murderer to death was overturned by the Colorado Supreme Court. The Court’s indulgence of trial by a jury of peers withered when it was revealed that some jurors had consulted the Bible and discussed certain passages in their deliberations. How quaint, the robed masters must have thought, that some of the vassals still refer to Scripture. Fortunately for us, we have an imperial judiciary to depurate the public square of the stain of religion.
But if we are to cast off 2000 years of civilization, by what standards shall we judge behavior?