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Quotes About Stoning

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
~ Azar Nafisi
57 Y arrojándolo fuera de la ciudad lo apedrearon; y los testigos depositaron sus vestidos a los pies de un mancebo, que se llamaba Saulo. 58 Y apedreaban a Esteban, el cual estaba orando, y diciendo: Señor Jesús, recibe mi espíritu. 59 Y poniéndose de rodillas, clamó en alta voz: Señor, no les hagas cargo de este pecado. Y dicho esto, durmió en el Señor. Saulo empero había consentido como los otros a la muerte de Esteban. 8
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
~ Jon Meacham
If the shar'ia required that a woman suspected of adultery should be stoned to death, the Bhagvad Gita establishes a mindset by referring to women and low castes as sinfully born, and khap panchayats do the rest.
~ Romila Thapar
Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.
~ Rupert Smith
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
~ Azar Nafisi
Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned. (Lapidation is good; it is much more elegant than stoning.) St.
~ Mark Twain
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
~ Jon Meacham
be stoned and the owner given the death penalty. If a ransom is agreed upon
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.
~ Ibn Warraq
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.
~ Gary North
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi
~ Philip Yancey
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
~ Bible
Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
~ 2 Chronicles 10:18
In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”
~ John 8:5
At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.
~ John 10:31
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
~ Acts 7:58