[gregebowman]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
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I can recall no instance of 'erase the unbelievers' without human sacrifice being involved. Nor were sinners burnt, that I recall. And the death penalty was only mandatory for adultry and first degree murder.

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Not true. If you read the Old Testament, or sit in church for about 10 years like I did when I was in my teens, then you find God wasn't as forgiving back then as he is now. Not only were adulterers and murderers killed (usually by stoning), he didn't like people who committed beastiality and witches. They were to be killed also. I'm pretty sure he didn't like homosexuals also, but can't remember now if they were to be killed also (although I'm pretty they were). There's probably more examples in the Bible of types of people God really didn't like, but I can't recall anymore than what I've already typed.