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<blockquote data-quote="Upsmule" data-source="post: 1165264" data-attributes="member: 45962">&quot;This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard. Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you.&quot; (Deuteronomy 21:19-21).First off, this son in question is hardly and adolescent guilty of nothing more then stubbornly slamming doors and asserting stubborn independence. The son described above is old enough to be morally culpable of wicked behavior that threatens the health and safety of the entire community. As such, the prescribed punishment is not for adolescent decadence but adult degeneracy. For the modern skeptic to the moral high ground is the height of hypocrisy. Especially since our modern enlightened society more closely resembles that of Israel&#039;s neighbors who sacrificed their sons and daughters. Western society has sanctioned the systematic slaughter of children guilty of nothing more than being &quot;unplanned&quot; or unloved.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Upsmule, post: 1165264, member: 45962"] "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard. Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 21:19-21). First off, this son in question is hardly and adolescent guilty of nothing more then stubbornly slamming doors and asserting stubborn independence. The son described above is old enough to be morally culpable of wicked behavior that threatens the health and safety of the entire community. As such, the prescribed punishment is not for adolescent decadence but adult degeneracy. For the modern skeptic to the moral high ground is the height of hypocrisy. Especially since our modern enlightened society more closely resembles that of Israel's neighbors who sacrificed their sons and daughters. Western society has sanctioned the systematic slaughter of children guilty of nothing more than being "unplanned" or unloved. [/QUOTE]

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