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Originally Posted by Misotheist001
Also as a question from someone who never understood this, why do you not kill or savagely beat your children upon disobeying even the simplest of commands, unless you do then never mind,
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Please show me where the Bible says to "kill or savagely beat" children for minor disobedience.
Hint: It doesn't.
Spanking with a rod is appropriate. However, a parent is not authorized to kill a child for simple disobedience; rather, the parent must bring the child to the rest of the village, declare the child's disobedience, and then the village will stone the child together.
This, of course, is typically a punishment reserved for adult children or teenagers, not young ones who may become much more obedient upon application of the rod.
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but still persecute gays even though the initial point of hatred of gays was to keep from dwindling populations, either by not enough heterosexual couples or by fear of sodomy causing disease.
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Please show me where the Bible says that homosexual sex is forbidden because of population or disease issues.
Hint: It doesn't.
God commanded us not to have same-sex relations. Because HE SAID SO, not for any other reason.
In fact, until God created AIDS to specifically punish Western homosexuals for being homosexual (and Africans both gay and straight for being African), the gay sex was actually
safer from a disease standpoint.