Justice in the afterlife

In case you have been living under a rock, Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder. It has been called a miscarriage of the justice system. Mothers across the nation are up in arms about the verdict. Who is to say that they are incorrect. Only Casey Anthony knows for sure if she is guilty or innocent. Christians who believe that she got away with murder will readily claim that she will get what is coming to her when she is judged by God.

The idea of divine justice is appealing from a fairness and equity point of view. It would be comforting to know that those who did crummy things in their life had crummy things happen to them in just proportions. And if Casey Anthony did intentionally kill her daughter I would be willing to say that is deserving of something equally as terrible. Unless, of course, her daughter was being unruly:

18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear. -
Deuteronomy 21:18-21s

 And in case anyone wanted to claim that the New Testament changed all of that:

For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ - Matthew 15:4

It seems to me that God would be pleased if that were the case. But even if he weren't the sense of justice we all yearn for, the sense that was bred into us over tens of thousands of years of social living, would not be satisfied. The god of the christians is claimed to have created the ultimate loop hole. All Casey Anthony would be required to do to side step any sort of posthumous reckoning would be to, on her death bed, let Jeebus into her heart and accept him as her savior. It is pink ponies and birthday cakes from there on out.

Those of us who are non-believers know that any recompense for crimes would need to be made in this world: the one world we know we have. Perhaps that is unsatisfying. But reality does not conform to what we find satisfying, otherwise I would be paid to stay at home and play video games instead of trudging into work every morning.