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Everyone must get stoned

Submitted By ben on 09/03/01

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Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day. The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. That's when police said the father went to a car, got a knife and stabbed his son in the left buttock and fled.

The son was taken to University of Maryland Medical Center for treatment. The father's name was withheld pending his arrest.

He should have stoned him instead.

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9tails

2 days - 3,026v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 1:18 GMT

Stabbing your son in the buttock for disobedience is a little harsh. A slap, spanking, switching or other chastizing discipline would have been sufficient.

But the father's fleeing conceded his dignity, even if wrong or over acted, the honorable thing to do would have been to stay and face his accusers.

thebiblewascompiledin325AD

5 days - 8,032v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 1:29 GMT

i think you missed the point. isn't this topic to show the foolishness of literal interpretation of the bible in modern times?

as in: everyone who commits minor offencees must be harsly punished and ofted killed out right.

Death for working on the sabbath any1?

rationalist (ben)

3 days - 3,596v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 1:59 GMT

Actually I was hoping was going to point out that the son should turn the other cheek. ;)

9tails

2 days - 3,026v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 2:18 GMT

The idea is to purge the ill lead behaviors. It was wrong for the son to be rebellious. The father stabbing the son in the buttock was over doing it.

People should never be killed for minor offenses. Working on the sabbath is not a minor offense, according to law. We are called to honor the sabbath day and rest. Working on the sabbath shows disrespect and disregard for the lord's sanctioned day of rest. You do not have to honor it, but those that do revere it. I, for one, do not work on sunday and will not ever. I have lost jobs in the past because of it.

rationalist (ben)

3 days - 3,596v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 3:12 GMT

Do you eat cheeseburgers though? That is one of the ten commandments too. God put that one on the tablet.

Look at Exodus Chapter 34

Kevin Lyon (physicist)

1 day - 1,877v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 14:30 GMT

"You do not have to honor it, but those that do revere it."

Son are you being intentionally obtuse? How can you say "you do not have to honor it" as if it was a personal choice. You have been too spoiled by your western freedoms against which you ironically seem to hold such disdaine. In fact there was a time when there were only two options, "Honor the Sabbath as we say you should....or die" And if you were being honest with us 9tails...that is the way you would like to see things managed today.

Kevin Lyon (physicist)

1 day - 1,877v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 14:25 GMT

Harsh?....but the bible dictates that he should be stoned....that seems a harsher punishment...at least he is alive.

bigdog

4 days - 5,621v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 22:30 GMT

Jesus changed the corporal punishment laws, so that's why Christians and even the Jews don't practice stoning today. I believe in the death penalty only for child molesters and people who torture others for there own personal gratification and murderers.

thebiblewascompiledin325AD

5 days - 8,032v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 23:09 GMT

"torture others for there own personal gratification'

if you mean mental and physical torture, thats A LOT of people there.

aslo what do you think about manslaughterers? That is to say people who kill other people but not with the intention of kiling them (malicious intent).

thebiblewascompiledin325AD

5 days - 8,032v

Posted 2009/03/01 - 23:10 GMT

"Jesus changed the corporal punishment laws, so that's why Christians and even the Jews don't practice stoning today"

so w8...Jezus just refutes tparts of the old testament? THATS NOT A PRETTY FIXED GOD YOU GOT THERE. when he goes saying one thing, and then refuting it a little later.

bigdog

4 days - 5,621v

Posted 2009/03/02 - 6:00 GMT

We live under a new covenant now, or contract. The law is still the same, but our sins are paid for in full now if we accept JESUS.

Joe (epiclolguy)

1 day - 1,984v

Posted 2009/03/16 - 20:38 GMT

So billions of people who will never hear of Jesus deserve to go to hell! Oh wait, thats horrible.

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