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GOP candidate said it's "totally just" to stone gay people to death [1]

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Date: 2022-08-22

Link at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-candidate-said-it-s-totally-just-to-stone-gay-people-to-death/ar-AA10W28f

God! I am so disgusted with hypocritical, lying “Christians” like Scott Esk, the GOP candidate in question, and their implied lie: “Well, gosh, I’m just a good ole Christian trying to follow the Bible.” I could condemn Esk from the perspective of a sane human being (something he is not, if he really believes what he’s saying, not just pandering to other “Christians” for votes). Or I could condemn him to help defend the LGBTQ community, even though I’m not a member. But my interest in theology prompts me to condemn him for his implied lie.

Lying, we’re told, is an offense against God. And making God and the Bible part of your lie seems to me especially offensive, sacrilegious even.

OK, good ole Christian trying to follow the Bible, here are some other Bible verses, some other commandments you’ll back if you’re sincere. (You’re not.)

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. Exodus 21:17

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. Leviticus 20:9

Esk, do we kill a child that curses a parent or not? And notice the Bible doesn’t mention a statute of limitations. If a mother of eight-five recalls her child cursed her sixty years ago, then God’s word is plain: put the curing child to death.

Mr. Esk, in your teen years, did you ever curse a parent? It’s OK if you did; the teen years can be tough. But most teens get through those years and become mature adults—if some wackjob doesn’t kill them first, out of a sincere desire to follow the Bible, or course.

What? You say that those commandments about killing a cursing child are Old Testament? You say that Jesus gave us a new law. Maybe he did give us some new laws, but not about killing the curing child. In the following verses, it is Jesus himself who is speaking.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ Matthew 15:4

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ Mark 7:10

But it really doesn’t matter what the Bible says because Christians don’t follow it anyway. Rather, they follow what clergy says the Bible says. That’s why a Christian can see the word “serpent”—a word God supposedly wrote in his own super-duper book as translated by men and women who spend their entire lives studying biblical texts and ancient languages and who, no doubt, pray for guidance from the Holy Spirit as they translate—but nonetheless believe that “serpent” means “Satan (not Darth Vader or the Ghost of Christmas past but Satan, because clergy says so).

And we have Jesus saying in the New Testament—i.e., God himself quoting himself in his very own book:

“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’ But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” Matt 5:33-37

But, say clergy, that is Jesus saying it’s OK to take an oath: upon taking political office; when joining the military; in court: “I swear that the evidence that I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.”; and, in the United States, schoolchildren routinely recite the Pledge of Allegiance, that is, the Oath of Allegiance, every day.

If that’s what God is really saying in Matt 5:33-37 then God’s Word is entirely too tricky for me to understand, because the bare words just don’t say that. And a book that tricky to understand is useless, isn’t it?

In any event, Mr. Esk, please spare us your verbal diarrhea. And stop posing as a good ole Christian trying to follow God’s Word. Because you’re something else.

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