Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by Idaho_Shooter
Originally Posted by DBT
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False analogy....The stick gatherer was not out to kill anyone. He probably just needed more wood for his fire, to feed his family. For which he was not forgiven or chastised, but killed..
.let those without sin cast the first stone!!?

Actually, what the stick gatherer was doing, was challenging the authority of the priesthood. (the governing body in a theocracy)

Tantamount to treason in any modern society, and a crime often punishable by death.



Good thing this country isn't founded on challenging authority and no one ever wrote out that challenge in a document spelling out their grievances...

The authority of England was challenged on the basis of what the colonists believed to be a violation a moral code for just government. It was not based on a lone ranger shaking his sticks.