Last month I wrote a short post called The Proof is Out There (But Not Where You Think) about an exchange on X. The Pope had condemned capital punishment, plainly and in so many words. Commenters answered with New Testament verses they said proved the death penalty biblical. My objection then, and now, was simple: read the verses they offered, and not one of them said “capital punishment.” Not one of them said “execution.” I linked a Dan McClellan video and left it there, which was doing the thing I complain about — handing my readers homework instead of an argument. So here is the argument, in full, in my own words.
