Let's start the "Leviticus 20:10 Law" to freak out the Neocon Twits

[zulchzulu]

Leviticus 20:10
20:10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

We need to have this law passed! Imagine... we could have a Leviticus 20:10 Execution Channel.

Basically, if you commit adultery, you get stoned to death. So, since all the hubbub about gay marriage based on religious law is being ballyhooed about, why not take the Religious Reich at their word and demand a "Leviticus 20:10 Law".

Hey, it's in the fucking Bible, so it must be right...no pun intended.

Let's start a Leviticus 20:10 movement. Then we can stone to death Newt a couple times...Rush three times...Falwell...

[Stephanie]

1. Poppy

Let's do it! Someone grab the domain name.

www.leviticus2010.com

And NO HOMOSEXUALS would be subject to this law, since they are not allowed to marry. Hah! I love it.

[zulchzulu]

4. I bought the URL

I may redirect it to www.awolcowboy.com

Yet I think it would be a great way to smack back at the Religious Reich. Sink them at their own game.

[Stephanie]

7. Yay!

We can start our own movement.

The best thing would be if all UNMARRIED people advocated this law. Right?

[Stinky The Clown]

17. You, my friend, are a true hero!

Way ta go!

Now all that liddle ol' lonely url needs is some stuff ta fill it up.

[zulchzulu]

10. That is genius!

I forgot that the same people that these people don't want to marry can vote for this law because they can't marry!

It's in the damn Bible!

You can't pick and choose your Bible for your own plans. It's either all Bible ALL the time or fugetabouit.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. If nothing else

this should be brought up-after all, adultery is a real threat to the sanctity of marriage, unlike who decides to marry whom.

[blondeatlast]

46. Indeed. nt

[SemperEadem]

51. and many fundies are on their second and third marriages

still with their first spouse alive.

[ibegurpard]

3. Nah

They'll just find a way to enshrine adultery and find some biblical justification fo rit.

[Dr.Phool]

6. Lets take nominations

Bob and Libby Dole
Newt Gingrich
Henry Hyde
Steven Latourette
Neil Bush
Jimmy Swaggart

To many to list

[complain jane]

8. Dr. Laura

[baldguy]

12. Ronald Reagan

[The Doctor.]

14. Al D'amato, Jim baker, Rudy Guiliani, Nancy Reagan,...

George H.W. Bush, (Rush cheat yet - or he just a druggie?)

[MADem]

16. Well, his divorce from wife number three, or is it four

...is not final, and he is cavorting about with that CNN newswoman.

Who MUST have sustained a head injury....talk about your odd couple!

[kohodog]

19. Don't forget Rush! n/t

[alvis]

5. Landover Baptist has the right idea

Bible Fear Factor

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0902/biblefearfactor.html

and Levitical Law Week

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/leviticus2.html

Five families place themselves under Old Testament Law for one week. The last person alive will enjoy a "tithe free" church membership for one year.

[hollowdweller]

9. This is my favorite from www.whitehouse.org's Dept of Faith

Draft of changes to the constution to conform to Biblical guidelines.

http://www.whitehouse.org/dof/marriage.asp

[Mz Pip]

11. I love it

A bible based reality show. The fundies should love it. :evilgrin:

Somebody pitch this to the networks.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[The Doctor.]

13. Excellent!....

But what if I have a 'personal' issue with that one?

(I am a Republican, which means I HAVE to cheat sooner or later...)

[K to the YLE]

15. Brilliant! n/t

[Slyder]

18. Mark 10:11

And in this passage Jesus equates divorce and remarriage with adultery. Ergo, Mark and Leviticus together says anyone who is divorced and remarried is an adulterer and should be executed! But we must be merciful. I would think that requiring such persons to wear a scarlet letter "A" and the removal of all civil rights and recourse to the law should be enough. They should also be required to give up their immoral lifestyles and return to their real spouses. Immorality should not be tolerated.

[Slyder]

20. disclaimer

I should have added: This statement is intended as satire and does not reflect the views of this DU member. This disclaimer is necessary in a world that has become too literal and does not understand irony.

[Stephanie]

25. Duly noted.

Welcome to DU, Slyder!

[ewagner]

26. Scarlet "A"

and take away voting privileges.........that should be the end of the republican party.

[kohodog]

21. new hat promo: 20:10

let's make some.

A whole lot better than the WWJD (What would Jenna Do) ones!

[Carson]

22. *sigh* I grow weary of explaining the difference betweet OT and NT law

for Christians. And on second thought, I'll just let it slide.

However, do your homework before posting this ignorant stuff. And I don't mean "ignorant" as a euphemism for "stupid", but merely "not knowledgeable".

[zulchzulu]

23. Old Testament punishment is more fun...

I knew it was OT. That's the beauty part.

Who the hell notices the difference anyway...

http://www.probe.org/docs/cap-pun.html

[Carson]

28. "Who the hell notices the difference anyway"

Um, Christians. That was who your message was aimed at, right?

[Straight Shooter]

30. Not aimed at Christians.

Aimed at Christian impostors. You know the kind, "Do as I say, not as I do."

The kind of people who have no clue what "practice what you preach" means. Grabbing the beam in their eye and using it to whack me up the side of the head because I've got a mote in my eye. That kind of "Christian."

Not aimed at the real ones, who are easy to spot. They are kind, merciful and generous. Being in their presence makes you feel better about yourself, and about the world in general.

[Carson]

31. Excellent definition. Thanks for clarifying. nt

[really annoyed]

32. Sigh...

The "persecuted Christian" act is getting tired here.

You can't say ANYTHING remotely against the religious right here without somebody getting upset.

I find it absolutely mind-boggling that criticism against conservative Christianity brings up such strife here, especially because it is so tied up with politics.

It's getting pretty tiresome to explain the difference between the so-called "religious right" and the liberal Christians here. You would think most people would understand the difference by now.

I apologize if I "offended" you.

[Carson]

42. I never said I was offended. Thanks for the apology anyway. nt

[blondeatlast]

47. I think his message was aimed at HYPOCRITICAL Christians.

I'm a Christian and I laughed out loud at this idea.

I love it.

[Cronus Protagonist]

24. Well, if you're weary of it, quit doing it

I think that would be appreciated all round, don't you think?




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[Carson]

29. I suppose it would.

Ignorance is bliss, I guess. :eyes:

[really annoyed]

33. By Now...

You've been here longer than me. You would think by now that you would know the difference without somebody explaining it to you. It didn't take me long to catch on.

I'm sorry if I "offended" you.

Sorry this board is so "anti-Christian" and doesn't cater enough to conservative Christians who seem to be Biblical scholars.

[crasmane]

36. Anti-Christian?

quote: Sorry this board is so "anti-Christian" and doesn't cater enough to conservative Christians who seem to be Biblical scholars. end quote.

I don't know one bona fide biblical scholar who is a conservative Christian.
Not one.
Biblical scholars study scriptures and related works of the period. They have authority, but little power and are satisfied.
Conservative Christians try to manipulate such study for social control, profit, and power and are never satisfied.
One enlightens, the other tries its best to blind;
one is likely to be heaven-bound, the other is damned for sure.

[really annoyed]

34. Agreed

But you have to walk on eggshells around here, lest you offend an Almighty Christian biblical scholar who knows better than all of us!

But I'm a lowly infidel, what do I know? I'm allowed to be the butt of all insults.

At least the people at the beginning of this thread are having fun. Maybe I should have stayed up their...

[Carson]

43. Wow. You really live up to your name.

First, take a deep breath. Exhale. Now, feel better?

Okay, I was not offended nor was I trying to insult anyone. My only opinion was posts like the OP only make us look as ignorant as the pick-and-choose/mix-and-match type of Christian.

From further reading of the thread, perhaps that was the point the OP was trying to make and I misunderstood.

Now, Really Annoyed, go in peace and sin no more. ;-)

[displacedtexan]

35. Please help us, Carson.

I have an undergraduate minor in Religion from Texas Christian University (The best football team money can buy!), and I marvel at many fundamentalist Christians' pick-and-choose OT/NT mentality.

I think we DUers are talking about the pick-and-choose types, not those who live their beliefs and honor the true words and deeds of Jesus.

I don't believe that any DUer intentionally insults any true Christian on this board, but I recognize that some feel insulted regardless of the intention.

Perhaps "Present company excluded" or some such qualifier could help diffuse the current situation.

If you can, please help us figure out a way to express frustration with the religious right without insulting true Christians.

[Solomon]

37. What you said here puts the finger on what bothers me the most about

us christians. You should be weary of explaining the difference between OT and NT law because christians are the world's biggest hypocrits.

According to theory, the OT should be superceded by the NT. But because there's no rationale for hatred under the NT, christians go right back to the OT to do their dirt.

When we christians need to justify war, violence, hatred, jealousy, etc., we have no choice but to invoke the OT. When we want to hurt someone, we invoke the OT.

In fact, the OT is used much more than the NT. And the truth of the matter is that christians have set up two gods who are definitely not the same. The OT god and the NT god. The OT god is like Allah of the islamic faith. Christians pretend they are the same god by claiming one is the son of the other. Pure genius. No wonder we are all nuts.

[blondeatlast]

48. Precisely; and that's an all too often ignored quandary.

If anyone ever thought being a liberal and a Christian was easy, I'd like to see them struggle with this.

I choose (yes, choose) to believe in the NT.

A God who molded this marvelous earthly plane is clearly not a hateful, vengeful, one, IMHO.

[leftofthedial]

27. does this literally mean that if she's not married

(that is, not someone's "wife") that it's not adultery?

Look out single women, the old leftie is back in action!

[shimmergal]

40. Actually it almost does.

Adultery was a property offense. If she's under the authority of some other man--husband, slaveowner, or father--he owned her sexuality, and another man having sex with her was a crime.

So presumably a free, mature single woman was OK. However, among the O.T. Jews of this time she would have been a rarity. I don't think they had any concept of a autonomous single woman, free to make her own decisions about her sexuality.

[leftofthedial]

44. but still, we old married fogies can go at it with the single gals

and still get into heaven!

praise gawd and hand me a viper!

Oh. I already got a viper!

[magnolia]

38. Correct me if I'm wrong....but...

...doesn't the bible also say that if a man even looks at another man's wife his eyes should be plucked from his head!

(If that's the case, I want the white cane concession!)

Let's be clear here...according to the bible, men and women are NOT equal. Therefore, women can look, touch, f*ck another women's husband and it's fine and dandy. It's only leud and sinful behavior, worthy of execution and blindness, if men do it! So, in an affair, the man is killed and the woman lives on to f*ck another day, and eventually the male species gets killed off. (Women, being industrious multi-taskers, will keep enough sperm in the freezer so as not to extinquish the entire race.) Obviously, it's the goal of the bible and God to get rid of men create an all Lesbian race world...right?

....and...the bible says that "man being with man" is wrong. Nothing about women being with women. We need to inform the right-wing that: men marrying men = bad. Women marrying women = no problemo!

[InvisibleBallots]

39. Damn Fundies! Arrg!

[lawladyprof]

41. Just sent a message to my paper's online comments section

My paper has an anonymous call/send in comments section. Here's what I just sent it.

The same book of Leviticus that tells us homosexuality is an abomination also tells us in chapter 20 verse 10 that adulterers should be put to death. And Jesus in Mark 10:11 equates divorce and remarriage with adultery! Who choses which parts of the Bible are still valid and true and which parts aren't?

I've just before that DU'ers find a paper (doesn't have to be where you live) that has this feature and start getting our arguments out in that forum. I send in three or four a week and one a week usually gets in.

Here's three in Georgia to get you started.

http://www.moultrieobserver.com/contactus/rantrave.htm
http://www.tiftongazette.com/contactus/rantrave.htm
http://www.timesenterprise.com/contactus/rantrave.htm

And, of course, you can check to see if yours got in. Don't send the same message or even about the same topic to each one. Send about different subjects (progressive arguments, conservative/administration inconsistencies, anyone?). If you give an address for a similar feature in a newspaper in your area, I'll send messages to them too.

[blondeatlast]

45. Excellent! Post a link when you can.

I saw down the thread you purchased the domain.

[bush_is_wacko]

49. I'm for that!

Except if they actually bothered to pass it, I'd have to stone several family members and their ex's to death!

[blondeatlast]

50. Here's a star-studded collection of RadRight hypocrites to choose from:

http://tesibria.typepad.com/redmorals/

Enjoy this while ZZ gets the site running!

[Mr. Mousie]

52. I love it!!!

I'm sure people must have seen that "Open Letter to Dr. Laura" a few years back--where the author took the Bible so totally literally and was asking Dr. Laura, who used the Bible to call homosexuality an "abomination", whether or not she thought shit like slavery would be ok, since it's upheld in the Bible. It was some great satire.

Great idea!!

[lawladyprof]

53. Kick

n/t

[ecstatic]

54. Ummm.... I think they'd be delighted actually

The whole family would gather round the television set to pray for the stone throwers.