You know, I try not to pick on Canadian Sentinel. I really do. But every once in a while he says something so staggeringly stupid, so astonishingly uninformed, that…well, I’m a weak man.

This week’s treat (screenshot available in case it mysteriously disappears):

“There’s absolutely nothing in the Bible about “stoning”. That’s only found in the Koran.”

Now, this really shouldn’t astonish, given that this is a blogger who sincerely cannot tell the difference between Nazism and Communism, who believes that I’m a spy, who provides lengthy analyses of documents he’s never read, and whose idea of reliable source is a periodical that believes the planet is just over 6,000 years old.

But Scenty…if you’re going to tout the Bible as the source of your inspiration, you might consider actually…reading it. Crazy idea, eh? And if you did, you’d discover such passages as this (the little numbers at the end of each quote tell you where to look for words in the Bible, Scenty):

“A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:27″

“”And The Lord said to Moses … He who blasphemes the Name of The Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.” (Leviticus 24:13,16)

“”If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods … You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from The Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” (Deuteronomy 13:6,10 )

“If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her … and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel’s father shall say … these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. … But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.” Deuteronomy 22:13-21

“If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city.” Deuteronomy 22:23-24

“They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. … And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones…. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.” Numbers 15:32-56

“Achan … took of the accursed thing. … And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. … So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger.” Joshua 7:1-26

“Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. 1 Kings 21:10″

“There’s absolutely nothing in the Bible about “stoning”. That’s only found in the Koran.”

So it seems there is, in fact, quite a bit in the Bible about stoning, Scenty. Seems you were wrong. But what about the Koran?

Well, as a matter of fact, the Koran NEVER sanctions stoning. Not once.

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