Justice comes at last for Catholic Priest Rev. John Skehan. He started serving a 14-month sentence for stealing $370K.
The crime of the defendant was pure greed unmasked," Palm Beach Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath said at the sentencing. "There was not a shred of moral necessity to excuse the defendant's crime.
Skehan is already 81. He’s lost everything no, even his dignity. Prison is going to be hard on the old rat bastard.
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VeridicusX · 835 weeks ago
Could your attitude, (and the judge's), be based on a religious lie?
Please read this Free Will: The Last Great Lie.
At root we know of only two possible kinds of events in the Universe, caused and uncaused events. Decisions can be categorized as deterministic or indeterministic.
Arthur C. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Although our ability to choose looks like magic, it is subject to the same laws of physics as everything else.
Reasoning on this evidence, a person either has a core program online, (to use a computing metaphor), to behave ethically and responsibly and does so unavoidably, they are therefore morally "responsible", or they are "not responsible".
Now either the judge, (and it seems you), knows something about physics, computing and information processing, neuroscience and psychology that modern science doesn't, or the judge introduced religious superstition into his judgment.