Most dubious bible quote and hopefully explanations.

[Stranger]

I appreciate the quotes and the discussion but I would like to stress I am asking for two things, discussion on the quotes given and thoughts on their meaning, as well as dubious quotes themselves.

This is because of many reasons, mostly as a sign of solidarity to other cultures to show that we know the dubious parts of my own.

That being said, here is one more dubious quote:

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?scri...6000100002

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (Exod 22:18)

I am not seeking to attack the bible or christians, I am seeking to show the light of reason from our internal debate so other cultures do not feel we whitewash our own, in the spirit of the lively debate on Islam, Thank You.

Now that is easy.  There is a lot of STS in the Old Testament; Yahweh is essentially depicted as a pure STS entity who orders multiple genocides and punishes the Israelites for being insufficiently thorough in carrying them out.  The OT (for the most part) is completely at odds with the STO tone of the NT - so much so that they, as far as I'm concerned, have no business being in one book.

If you disagree, go ahead and actually read through the OT and then come back and we can chat about it. Stuff in there is horrifying.