AFA: If America was ruled by Biblical law, then that killer whale would never have killed that woman

[ck4829]

While it is quite common for Religious Right leaders to root their public policy positions in Biblical teachings, they generally refrain from citing chapter and verse as the literal framework for our laws and regulations. But twice in the last week, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association had done just that.

"If the counsel of the Judeo-Christian tradition had been followed, Tillikum would have been put out of everyone's misery back in 1991 and would not have had the opportunity to claim two more human lives.

Says the ancient civil code of Israel, "When an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner shall not be liable." (Exodus 21:28)

So, your animal kills somebody, your moral responsibility is to put that animal to death. You have no moral culpability in the death, because you didn't know the animal was going to go postal on somebody.

But, the Scripture soberly warns, if one of your animals kills a second time because you didn't kill it after it claimed its first human victim, this time you die right along with your animal. To use the example from Exodus, if your ox kills a second time, "the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death." (Exodus 21:29)"

Given that Fischer believes our laws ought to literally be based upon the rules set down in the Bible, it raises some questions about this series of posts he wrote a few weeks back about how "homosexual behavior" should be against the law.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bible-based-legal-theory-vs-death-penalty-gays

[northofdenali]

1. Of course not. She'd never have been in a skin-tight wetsuit.

Or allowed to hold a job over a male anything, anyway :P

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. If America was ruled by Biblical law that woman would have turned up in Ninevah 3 days later. nt

[katsy]

3. Let's get some media on these rw lunatic ravings.

Keep talking AFA. Tell us more. You'll bury the gop eventually.

[leftstreet]

4. hehheh....sperm whale....hehhe

[damyank913]

6. Too funny.

[DefenseLawyer]

5. If it wasn't for my horse

I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

[Quezacoatl]

7. Right wing Christians

Why is it that right wing Christians never call upon Christ's words to support their beliefs?

[gratuitous]

8. Slight correction

If the United States was ruled by one group's benighted interpretation twisted by a poor understanding of the biblical text, then that killer whale would never have killed that woman. We'd also have hexagonal wheels on every conveyance.

[pipi_k]

9. Heathen animals!!!!

that's the problem!

Critters that refuse to read the Bible!


This calls for more intense focus on spreading The Word to soulless beasts!!!

[Arkana]

10. What the fuck.

[Quantess]

11. The bible has countless barbaric and twisted rules.

The christians who say the bible is not meant to be taken literally are the most sane and well adjusted christians.