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Old 06-03-2009, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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I know the Christian bible says thou shalt not murder...but it also advocates the stoning of people for certain purposes.

So, why don't we stone anymore?

If Christian people who are so strong in their faith don't follow everything in the bible, why follow it at all?


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Old 06-03-2009, 09:27 AM
 
Location: GIlbert, AZ
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I like getting stoned. Anybody else here like getting stoned? There, problem solved.
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Old 06-03-2009, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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My guess would be, that stones now evolved into guns, no need for stoning anymore. After all, bronze age behavior should be complete gone by now, but I'm sure fundies would love to get a stone in their hands and go at it, if there is a chance....
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Old 06-03-2009, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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I know the Christian bible says thou shalt not murder...but it also advocates the stoning of people for certain purposes.

So, why don't we stone anymore?

If Christian people who are so strong in their faith don't follow everything in the bible, why follow it at all?
It also says if your left hand commits adultery, cut it and throw it into the fire for it's better to enter into heaven with one hand.

So every one of us should amputate ourselves? You wanna turn all christians into radical islamists? that's what they do with the literal Islam, say stopping girls from going to school, still, in 2009 AD.

You gotta differentiate between rhetoric and the semantics involved.

This looks like another thread where the Brigade will agglomerate
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Old 06-03-2009, 11:11 AM
 
Location: Nashville, Tn
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It's true that Christians don't stone people do death these days but the Muslims sure do. There's always some new story about somebody being stoned to death for adultery or whatever the offense might be.
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Old 06-03-2009, 11:32 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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Well, I used to do a lot of stoning, but, quit doin' those drugs over 20 years ago.
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Old 06-03-2009, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Only barbarians stone people.
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Old 06-03-2009, 11:36 AM
 
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Well, I used to do a lot of stoning, but, quit doin' those drugs over 20 years ago.
I don't 'stone' anymore because it's not worth getting fired over. Perhaps if I didn't have a mortgage I'd take it up again. Who knows.
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Old 06-03-2009, 03:29 PM
 
Location: Nashville, Tn
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Only barbarians stone people.
I agree but getting the electric chair or being hung by the neck until you're dead doesn't sound like a day at the beach either and we do that all the time in America.
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Old 06-03-2009, 04:12 PM
 
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to the op and a question like this:

once stoned, always ... (you're not short of repeated variations yet, are you?)
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