Once Everyone Accepts God’s Law, “High-Handed” Sinners Could Be Executed

[Sam Harris: “Let's say your wayward son or daughter goes off to a yoga class and decides that they would really rather worship the god Shiva... And on top of that, they're gay. On top of that, they want to work on the Sabbath... Surely you can turn that child over to the authorities for killing.”] Yes. If—all right, here's... the big if that we talked about earlier... In 2 Corinthians 10, it says we don't use carnal weapons. So we don't try to institute this regime by means of knocking heads together or punishing people. That's simply not the way it comes about. Now, once it's established, once everybody acknowledges the authority of God's word and we're living in this republic and someone sins in a high-handed way, I can see that it's going to have an impact on the laws. And I can see that at some point certain high-handed rebellions would be dealt with that way. And it says in Proverbs, if you strike the fool, the simple learn wisdom. So if someone is guilty of outlandish behavior, you know, let's say a priest molesting altar boys, and in that setting that person is executed for it, that's going to steady a lot of people up.

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