I wish I lived in a theocracy

I know I know I should never never never link to fox "news" but in this case I don't think its that critical, its a short little blurb anyway. So here ya go. Fox "news" on Islamic Serial Killers. These folks killed 18 people and were tried for five of the murders. Now they have confessed to the crimes, thats not the issue, the issue is that according to their religion they should give the people two warnings to stop, which they claim they did, then if they don't stop you kill them. Sometimes by stoning, sometimes by suffocation, or in at least one case, you can bury them alive. So after being convicted it was overturned by the supreme court because the killers were correct, the Koran does say to kill people who behaved in the way the victims behaved.

Now people who regularly read/ look at Fox "news" may see this as an example of why we must be vigilant to take down this Islamic menace. They might even say it shows why we must become the Christian nation that we were founded as. Now I'm not going to get into the fact that this is in no way a christian nation. But what I see when I read this is what America could be like if it were in fact a christian nation.

Some may say at this point, but the Koran is angry and violent, The Bible is good, the golden rule and what not, hehe, yeah right. Could a christian nation allow murder if it was sanctioned by the bible? I don't know, but the bible sure as hell sanctions violence.

I've always been fond of this one: Deuteronomy, Chapter 13 verses 13 through 16

13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again

So if America was a Christian nation, and you decided to incinerate New York City because you found out that there were people worshiping other gods, could you be punished? You conformed to the commands of god as the bible explicitly describes it, is that wrong? YES! In the world of morals it is obviously wrong to destroy a city because some people were of another religion, but if your principles aren't based on morals but are instead based on the bible then how can murder be wrong let alone outlawed? This is why I don't want to live in a theocracy. If you do then be my guest, move to Iran.

Heres a couple hundred examples. 858 examples to be exact, just under cruelty and violence.

Whenever we read ... the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. And, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason