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Sam Harris, Bart Ehrman, Cliff Walker, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Beechbum on stoning your own little children to death

Indeed, these are the go to guys if you want to learn how to manipulate your audience’s emotions by misusing, misinterpreting, misapplying, mishandling and misunderstanding the Bible’s contents, concepts and contexts and thereby take texts out of context to make pretexts for prooftexts.

Sam Harris, Bart Ehrman, Cliff Walker, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Beechbum and many, many, many other atheists are quite pleased to loudly and proudly admit—unbeknownst to them—that they are ignorant (literally, lacking knowledge—and I am being kind in referring to them as ignorant as the alternative is that they are not ignorant but are manipulators) in repeatedly repeating an ubiquitously promulgated well-within-the-box-atheist-group-think-talking-point:

Bart Ehrman, “If you disobey your parents you’re supposed to be stoned to death.”

Beechbum notes, “smarting off to ones parents is a capital crime in the ten commandments, punishable by death.”1

Richard Dawkins refers to “disobedient children.”2

Sam Harris refers to children who “talk back to us.”3

Michael Shermer, “disobedient children are supposed to be stoned to death.”4

Cliff Walker states “Execute stubborn kids” 5 and manipulates the text via an ellipses points filled conveniently selective quotation.

Considering the immediate and greater context we note that the Bible refers to stubborn, rebellious, disobedient, gluttonous, drunkards who “smiteth” and curse their parents and have already been chastened (Exodus 21:15, Leviticus 20:9 and Deuteronomy 21:18)—in fact, none of these texts makes any reference to a “child” or to “children.”

Thus, we are not dealing with little Timmy who refuses to put his toys away or says, “No!” to mommy and daddy. Rather, the references are not to a little child but to someone who is stubborn in their rebellious, disobedience and is violently drunk to the point that they beat up their very own parents, lives off of their hard work in a gluttonous manner, then curses them, and has already been chastened. Also, in order to carry out a stoning there had to be at least two eyewitnesses. Lastly, this law applies to the Hebrews / Israelites / Jews who lived millennia ago under God’s theocratic Kingdom; this is the sort of law according to which they agreed to live.


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