(March 23, 2015 at 8:55 am)vorlon13 Wrote:
After the Christers kill all the queers, they are going after all the shrimp eaters. And then the remarried divorced people.
And given that Evangelicals have the
highest rates of divorce of any religious group, that could result in them thinning their own numbers.
Also, I love it how they want to put Old Testament punishments into action without putting Old Testament jurisprudence into action. According to Wikipedia, here are just a few of the conditions that needed to be met in order for a conviction in a capital case:
It requires two witnesses who observed the crime. The accused would been given a chance and if repeated the same crime or any other it would lead into a death sentence. If witnesses had been caught lying about the crime they would be executed.
Two witnesses were required. Acceptability was limited to:
Adult Jewish men who were known to keep the commandments, knew the written and oral law, and had legitimate professions;
The witnesses had to see each other at the time of the sin;
The witnesses had to be able to speak clearly, without any speech impediment or hearing deficit (to ensure that the warning and the response were done);
The witnesses could not be related to each other or to the accused.
The witnesses had to see each other, and both of them had to give a warning (hatra'ah) to the person that the sin they were about to commit was a capital offense;
This warning had to be delivered within seconds of the performance of the sin (in the time it took to say, "Peace unto you, my Rabbi and my Master");
In the same amount of time, the person about to sin had to:
Respond that s/he was familiar with the punishment, but they were going to sin anyway; AND
Begin to commit the sin/crime;
The Beth Din had to examine each witness separately; and if even one point of their evidence was contradictory - even if a very minor point, such as eye color - the evidence was considered contradictory and the evidence was not heeded;
The Beth Din had to consist of minimally 23 judges;
The majority could not be a simple majority - the split verdict that would allow conviction had to be at least 13 to 11 in favor of conviction;
If the Beth Din arrived at a unanimous verdict of guilty, the person was let go - the idea being that if no judge could find anything exculpatory about the accused, there was something wrong with the court.[4]
The witnesses were appointed by the court to be the executioners.
Needless to say, this eventually ended in the Jews abandoning capital punishment in the first century AD.
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