My most recent experience with this was clicking through the local Chicago radio stations, and hearing this quote on a program with the improbable title of “Grace to You.”

I take you back to Deuteronomy 21:18 to 21, “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him will not listen to them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold of him, bring him out unto the elders of his city unto the gates of his place and they shall say unto the elders of his city…This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and drunkard.” (By now you can tell he’s at least a teenager.) “And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die.”

So, says Deuteronomy 21:21, “You shall put away evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.” You see, God knew the preservation of that nation was bound up in the parenting process in the obedience of children.

Yup…you read it right. Got a stubborn and rebellious kid? Just stone him to death. After all, “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it,” right?

Don’t believe me? Follow this link: http://www.gty.org/broadcast/transcript/1949.htm , and read down to about the middle of “side two.”

In the community of recovery, sometime “Christians” get blamed for more than the Nazis…and sometimes, I think it’s entirely deserved.

My most recent experience with this was clicking through the local Chicago radio stations, and hearing this quote on a program with the improbable title of “Grace to You.”

I take you back to Deuteronomy 21:18 to 21, “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him will not listen to them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold of him, bring him out unto the elders of his city unto the gates of his place and they shall say unto the elders of his city…This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and drunkard.” (By now you can tell he’s at least a teenager.) “And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die.”

So, says Deuteronomy 21:21, “You shall put away evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.” You see, God knew the preservation of that nation was bound up in the parenting process in the obedience of children.

Yup…you read it right. Got a stubborn and rebellious kid? Just stone him to death. After all, “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it,” right?

Don’t believe me? Follow this link and read down to about the middle of “side two.”

In the community of recovery, sometime “Christians” get blamed for more than the Nazis…and sometimes, I think it’s entirely deserved.