I say they can. Because otherwise, we can't do anything about them legally. What laws are the diabolic going to obey? None. But stupid people, we can push around with laws, and we should, for their own good, and for ours. It's outta love, for them, and for children, because we don't want children to grow up into retards and hurt themselves and their families, because they were fooled and tricked into being stupid, by the diabolic.
It is precisely our laws that create diabolical people, idolater!
Just laws create a moral society, NOT the other way around. That's what the first nine chapters of Genesis teaches us.
A noble beginning...
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The fall...
Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes... she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
The first murder not met with the death penalty...
Genesis 4:8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass… that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Genesis 4:15 And the Lord said to him, ‘Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.’ And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
Adam is mortal...
Genesis 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Without the death penalty, man descends into insanity causing God to regrets having made man...
Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great... and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
God prepares to destroy the Earth with a flood and preserves a remnant...
Genesis 7:1 Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Come into the ark... for you I have seen righteous before Me in this generation..’
God's judgment ends with a promise to never flood the Earth again...
Genesis 8:21 Then the Lord said in His heart, ‘I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.’
As soon as Noah leaves the Ark, God institutes the death penalty for murder...
Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
This covers both the first and the last time Genesis mentions man having been created in the image of God. First at the beginning and then at the reboot (for want of a better term). It is precisely that, which is the foundation of both human dignity and criminal justice.
Do you agree with God, Idolater? Was God's logic valid? Should murderers be executed because they've unjustly taken the life of one made in God's image?
Or should we stay the course of Noah’s generation, where lawlessness was unchecked and judgment inevitable?
Genesis 6:5 the wickedness of man was great... and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.
