LETTER: Eye for an eye: A modern interpretation

America left God, and God left America to wallow in its own stupidity and suffer the consequences of its rejection of wisdom.

Case in point: According to the Feb. 2 Daily Inter Lake, Thomas Jessberger of Townsend was given 12 years for 15 counts of cruelty to animals.

The judge dropped the hammer on this screwball but then lost his way when he thought it wise to include everybody else in the man’s punishment to the tune of approximately $31,000 per year for his room and board.

Pseudo-intellectuals protest the eye-for-an-eye and tooth-for-a-tooth justice of the Old Testament as being the commands of a bloody God. They don’t get the point that justice to be just should be swift, painful and exactly equal to the crime. More than that is to be cruel and demeaning to the criminal. The whole idea is to stop the one-man crime wave before it becomes a matter for God to handle personally. Which could be dangerous for the whole community.

But rebellious man listening to the lies of Satan through our intellectual elite think they can out-do God in handling crime. So today we — as of 2013 — have 2,220,300 prisoners locked up at the cost of about 6.9 billions of dollars per year.

Man thinking he can be more just and compassionate than God has — as usual — created a boat load of unintended consequences that in effect causes all of us to have a share in the punishment of recidivistic personalities.

My bet is that Jessberger given the choice between 12 years in the insane asylum he’s headed for and the claws of a cat-o-nine-tails for 20 licks would choose the cat every time. And save us a ton of money, time and the likely creation of a career criminal.

I’m sure the fur-loving crowd will howl at that being way too lenient for this devil. But though the animals he abused have the capacity to suffer; and his abuse is unjustified in the eyes of God and man; still they are essentially property and disposable at will when done without cruelty.

That is my opinion and the opinion of mankind held for eons of time until recently when men began worshiping the creation instead of the Creator. —Tim Adams, Kalispell