A commenter to a post called The Church of Hate at Pharyngula wrote:

Deuteronomy orders that disobedient children be taken to the city gate and stoned to death.

Sounds pretty drastic and these days that would get you a long jail sentence.

What struck me as odd, no one has ever found piles of tiny bones at the gates of ancient Jewish cities. Nor AFAIK, has anyone ever done anything like this.

My best guess. When whoever was writing Deuteronomy was frothing at the mouth and ranting and raving, the average Israeli just shrugged their shoulders, said what a nutcase, and ignored him. Maybe he was the Fred Phelps of 1000 BC.

For some reason, I loved it.

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