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In reply to the discussion: the end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain but to do the will of God [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)because those laws order the stoning of others for many reasons, sartorial, dietary, and tonsorial choices, gardening choices, you name it. Example
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
King James Version (KJV)
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto 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.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you;