Et Cum Spiritu Tuo

          Dad once said, probably more than once now that I think about it, that I got my crazy political ideas from listening to my peers instead of thinking on my own, which is to be interpreted as – I should have the same opinions as Dad had. And of course I took offense at that.

         The one particularly crazy political idea of mine that Dad did not care for was my opposition to the death penalty.

         Thou shalt not kill.

         The source of that notion is none other than this group called the Catholic Church whose mass Dad took me to every Sunday when I was a kid! And while I have always had the world of respect for whoever was/is Pope at the time, and they do seem to be getting better and better, it would be a stretch to call any of them my peers – if anything, one would have to say it was Dad who instilled in me the thou shalt not kill edict with his example every Sunday of going to Church. If I wasn't going to get thou shalt not kill out of all that, then what would I get?

         Thou shalt not kill – it really could be that simple.

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