Oct 3, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 13 segments
Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Intro 1\. 0:29 {Matt Walsh vs. The Pope} Is Matt Walsh’s position on the death penalty consistent with the position of the Catholic Church? And why…
This is Matt Walsh, and he says on Twitter, this was, I think, just like yesterday, or was it this morning? Yesterday? Might have been this morning.
Anyway, there is no coherent Christian argument that the death penalty is immoral.
He means that the death penalty itself is inherently immoral, like it's immoral automatically by nature of what it is, what it does is immoral.
Okay, it can be immoral because it's done unjustly, because it's given out for the wrong crimes, because it's done in a manner that is egregious, but this is different.
This is about it being immoral inherently, which I think the majority of people think, especially in Western countries, Christians in Western countries.
I agree with Matt here, I have a whole video, I'll link down below after the stream, I forgot to before, I'll put it down there.
It's my full teaching on the death penalty, but we will get into Romans 13 today as well, which is irrefutably supportive of the death penalty.
Okay, so Matt goes on and says, and I agree with Matt here, God prescribes it for a whole host of crimes in the Old Testament.
So if your position is that it is fundamentally evil to execute anyone, then you must be saying either that the Old Testament is not the word of God, or that God was morally confused, or that's a nice way to put it, or that the inherent morality of the action has changed, rendering vast swaths of scripture irrelevant.
Although I think the Catholic, current Catholic position, and Matt is a Catholic currently, not that he suggested he wouldn't be one in the future, But I have hopes.
But the Catholic position, however, is not, I think, consistent with what he just said.
So I understand that some Christians, he goes on to say, try to get around this by claiming that the death penalty was necessary a long time ago, but isn't necessary anymore.
The death penalty is very explicitly prescribed as a matter of, and in all caps, he says, justice in the Bible.
It's treated as a matter of this is what's just, this is what's good, this is what you should do.
This is Matt Walsh, and he says on Twitter, this was, I think, just like yesterday, or was it this morning? Yesterday? Might have been this morning.
Anyway, there is no coherent Christian argument that the death penalty is immoral.
He means that the death penalty itself is inherently immoral, like it's immoral automatically by nature of what it is, what it does is immoral.
Okay, it can be immoral because it's done unjustly, because it's given out for the wrong crimes, because it's done in a manner that is egregious, but this is different.
This is about it being immoral inherently, which I think the majority of people think, especially in Western countries, Christians in Western countries.
I agree with Matt here, I have a whole video, I'll link down below after the stream, I forgot to before, I'll put it down there.
It's my full teaching on the death penalty, but we will get into Romans 13 today as well, which is irrefutably supportive of the death penalty.
Okay, so Matt goes on and says, and I agree with Matt here, God prescribes it for a whole host of crimes in the Old Testament.
So if your position is that it is fundamentally evil to execute anyone, then you must be saying either that the Old Testament is not the word of God, or that God was morally confused, or that's a nice way to put it, or that the inherent morality of the action has changed, rendering vast swaths of scripture irrelevant.
Although I think the Catholic, current Catholic position, and Matt is a Catholic currently, not that he suggested he wouldn't be one in the future, But I have hopes.
But the Catholic position, however, is not, I think, consistent with what he just said.
So I understand that some Christians, he goes on to say, try to get around this by claiming that the death penalty was necessary a long time ago, but isn't necessary anymore.
The death penalty is very explicitly prescribed as a matter of, and in all caps, he says, justice in the Bible.
It's treated as a matter of this is what's just, this is what's good, this is what you should do.
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