The Stupidity, It's Everywhere!
Oct. 9th, 2012 09:01 amThe maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:So wrote Charlie Fuqua, GOP candidate for the Arkansas legislature, in a book he published earlier this year. He has declined to talk to the press further about his very biblical statement. In a 2009 book, Fuqua also wrote that "There is only one solution for the Muslim problem in America," and you don't have to imagine very hard to imagine correctly what he meant by that.
But Fuqua isn't the main reason I wanted to post. I could have let that news go; it's everywhere this morning, after all.
Last night, as I was driving to the grocery store, I flipped through the radio and landed on a local "Christian Talk" radio station where the host was flipping out about Fuqua. "This guy's crazy, right? Kill your children? I mean, that's just nuts. Help me out here, folks. Linda, you're on the line."
Linda delivered the crazy. "Chuck," she said, "You have to understand. It's not crazy. It makes sense in biblical terms. When that was written, people lived five hundred, six hundred years, maybe even seven hundred years. If children rebelled, it was very dangerous and could last a long time, and they had to be put down just the way you put down a rabid dog."
I had to turn it off at that point.
The sad part is, Linda doesn't even knowm her Bible. By the time of Deuteronomy, the sins of Cain and Ham had caught up with mankind and mankind had long been reduced to the allotted three-score and ten years.
God's fan club really scares me some days.
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