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LittleBlue

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16. I recall a passage from the Bible advocating killing disobedient children

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:07 PM

Dec 2015

Found it.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 166 helpful votes

“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

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+21

The main difference between Islam and Christianity is that Christians don't practice their religion as literally. They've dropped the most insane practices so that we can have nice things. Islam needs to get there. And continuing reform is happening, and allowed to happen, in Christianity and Judaism.

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Salman Rushie death sentence [View all] patsimp Dec 2015 OP

there are some Christians who support death penalty for gays JI7 Dec 2015 #1

true - and i denounce them every chance i get. I certainly do not embrace their viewpoint. patsimp Dec 2015 #2

That's not obnoxiousdrunk Dec 2015 #3

it was a good point patsimp Dec 2015 #4

Yes, but when they do, we don't say "these aren't real Christians" LittleBlue Dec 2015 #7

Christianity does not kill anyone who questions their doctrine for the most part. Islam teaches patsimp Dec 2015 #13

I recall a passage from the Bible advocating killing disobedient children LittleBlue Dec 2015 #16

"Islam teaches that anyone who is not muslim countingbluecars Dec 2015 #17

seriously, this is common knowledge about what islam says should be done with infidels patsimp Dec 2015 #19

Since you have so many muslim friends, countingbluecars Dec 2015 #21

i'm not parnoid. patsimp Dec 2015 #22

Riiiiiiggggghhhhtttt!!!!!!!! Xolodno Dec 2015 #31

+1000 smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #25

lol melman Dec 2015 #26

I think it is mainly extremists who countingbluecars Dec 2015 #5

that's why i'd like to see a ratio. From the friends i've spoken with patsimp Dec 2015 #10

Ah, Religion NightWatcher Dec 2015 #6

cool story, bro. KG Dec 2015 #8

Cat Stevens supported it, for one. Nye Bevan Dec 2015 #9

i stopped listening to his music as a result and have no respect for him patsimp Dec 2015 #11

Prominent Muslims did denounce the death sentence at the time. Eugene Dec 2015 #12

so the moderate was assassinated. doesn't that imply that the moderates will be killed off by the patsimp Dec 2015 #14

but the moderates i spoke with, and i do have a lot of muslim friends patsimp Dec 2015 #15

my firm belief is you hold the Muslim faith to a much higher standard LanternWaste Dec 2015 #18

i am neither muslim or christian so i don't have a bias. i'm simply relating what i've heard patsimp Dec 2015 #20

Being neither one nor the other has little relevance to bias. LanternWaste Dec 2015 #23

28% in the UK at the time whatthehey Dec 2015 #24

that's it exactly. how can we even talk about what the intensity of the tweaks and a death sentence patsimp Dec 2015 #27

Not sure I understand whatthehey Dec 2015 #29

my basis question at the top was how many muslims support the death penalty for Rusdie? patsimp Dec 2015 #28

And I answered the Q. Surely true. There's no crazy like Gawd crazy regardless of the name you use. whatthehey Dec 2015 #30