I'm not understanding this
Like that's anything new with you people. It seems you can't gain an understanding of anything that isn't spoon fed to you by your favorite ideologue and it's accompanying personality cult.
The scene where I thought someone was being stoned was less than thirty seconds long and I don't actually see anyone being stoned. I just see lots of people lined up.
So seeing a contrived and scripted movie scene makes you an expert on the subject?
the pain less than someone shot in a war
Have you ever been the victim of a gunshot? Have you ever been the victim of a stoning? If the answer to either of them is "no" then kindly shut the fuck up, because your lack of experience renders you not only unqualified, but indeed incapable of making such a comparison.
and the duration is tiny compared to people who have a terminal infection.
You say that as if it excuses such actions, the duration it takes someone to die doesn't make them any less dead.
I'm not saying that stoning is something small, I'm saying that stoning from this video doesn't look like the worst way in the world to go.
There are most assuredly worse ways to die, but you come off soundng like you'd be doing someone a favor by stoning them to death.
Am I missing something?
You are missing a great deal, not because you don't see it, but because you refuse to.
Here are my thoughts simply.
"Simply"? Is that because all those years of having you every thought and opinion spoon fed to you by your religious right ideologues has left you incapable of forming complex thoughts?
Stoning in the Bible is probably not what Muslims do.
How so? Stoning is stoning. Do you feel you have to make a disconnect between the two is because you don't wan't to admit that christianity is just as barbaric? Stoning used as a method of execution doesn't really leave much room for varience in it's practice. Christianity is no better than islam in this practice, both are only bound by what they can use or twist their holy books to justify.
Stoning is probably painful, but very short
Again I must ask, "Why do you think that makes it okay"? And unless you are using very big stones or throwing them at speeds one would find in Major League Baseball, then stoning someone to death is likely going be a long, slow, and unimaginably painful affair.
I'd like someone to show me how stoning in the Bible is unnecessarily torturous, and not only a form of execution.
Any form of execution that does not inflict instantenous and relatively painless death is unnecessarily torturous.
Key words being IN THE BIBLE. If you can help me with this, thanks. I'm not seeing it
If you are unable to come to the conclusion noted above without having it spelled out for you in the bible, then frankly I have to question whether you have any morals at all
