Judge not lest you yourself be judged? I've quite forgotten where that came from*...

Christians have been keen supporters of capital punishment, legally inflicted or not, since the earliest times. Look up Priscillian. Then look up Hypatia. That's mostly because, like so many who have been persecuted, their first thought on emancipation is to seize power over others. Not at all helped by odd words on the subject from the sect's eponym, who was just a man of his time, and appears to have thought it quite ordinary, along with slavery and ignorance of science.

And despite not having been persecuted in a dozen centuries, seizing power over others is the agenda that these talibs have set themselves. Attempts to introduce creationism into the school science syllabus have been made in many US states, and the campaign against legal recognition of homosexual relationships is similarly widespread. They have made serious inroads into the US military, where profession of extreme Christianity is a prerequisite for advancement in many areas, perhaps as a reaction to similarly extreme Islam.

This is not a condemnation of all Christianity- there are many decent Christians whose beliefs do not require the denial of reality- but it's long been a mystery to me why they allow themselves to be associated with the extremists, and why they seldom speak out.

*apart from "somewhere in the bible"