There's no justification for any sin, with Christ. I can't figure out how that sin is worse than young men beating up a homeless man to death, or beating on an elderly woman just to steal her purse, or teens harassing and bullying and beating up on another teen, or gangs lynching a person because they are of a different color, or citizens pimping out young girls for prostitution, or young people going on killing sprees killing innocent civilians. Yet, now, the vocal christian community isn't all right with homosexuality and they believe that only the sin of 'sodomy' will bring down God's judgment. Now we show much more civility and mercy to our criminals allowing them the privilege of self-defense in a court and the vocal christian community is okay with that.
I ask myself how children of those times fared living under such exposed violence. I'm sure people tended to become desensitised during times of British, French and European rule, with hangings, sending men to penal colonies, and beheadings. We in the West have been softened by living in a fairly un-barbaric time, compared to earlier times.
