actually---the practice of infanticide in arabia [sic] -----was an ARAB thing----Christians
and jews [sic] did not so engage in the barbarism of the people of arabia [sic] who eventually
became the barbaric muslims [sic]
Uh.... really?
Cue Psalm 137:9, Old Testes:
>> Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks! <<
I'm afraid that's both Christians
and Jews. Want to talk about stonings?
How 'bout a Dollop of Deuteronomy...
>> “Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.... break down their altars, smash their pillars, hew down their sacred poles and burn their idols with fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples of the earth.” (7:1-6)
Further down, in 21:
>> “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, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.<<
And then in 22;
>> “If . . . the charge [that the bride was not a virgin on her wedding night] is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.” <<
BUT WAIT -- there's also Leviticus. NOW how much would you pay...
>> Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.<<
"Numbers" agrees:
>> While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses. <<
Not to be left out, Exodus proclaims:
>> Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.<<
Now Joshua, that guy is very particular to designate the weapon of choice:
>> And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. <<
Apparently there was a lot of stoning with kumquats and stoning with bananas going on. Good to get that cleared up.
Also, I understand Slavery was a cool thing. Thus spake the Cult of the Lost Cause too.