What would you Christians say if your friends, the parents of two, informed you that they had doled out equal punishments to their children, one whose transgression was breaking curfew by five minutes, while the other's evil deed was selling crack cocaine to neighborhood toddlers?
Would you say, "Bravo; what wonderful parenting skills you've exhibited!"
Something tells me you wouldn't heap praise on your friends. You'd probably nod along politely until you were away from them, at which point you'd talk about what awful parents they were. You'd possibly even contemplate notifying authorities.
But wait a second, isn't equal punishment regardless of the crime what your religion teaches?
Rob a bank, kill a guy for looking at you funny, expose yourself to the elderly or oversleep and miss church on Sunday morning; it's all the same.
Not only would you dole out the same punishment, but that punishment would consist of an apology. You'd say, "I want you to apologize for your string of brutal left-hooks to Timmy's face and I want you to mean it!"
The "I want you to mean it," part has to do with the fact that God will only forgive you if you are truly sorry for your transgression. If that's the case, and you are correct in your beliefs, you'll all have trouble on judgment day, unless you're genuinely remorseful for the very natural act of saying the lord's name in vein after slamming your finger in the car door.
All I can say is I'm glad our justice system, which is supposedly based on Judeo-Christian philosophy, does not work this way. Then it'd be what, 15-days for every crime?
I suppose you religious folks would be happy with Jeffrey Dahmer spending 255-days in jail, but I'm happy he got a tad longer sentence for his 17 brutal murders.
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