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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”

December 7, 2009 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

I’m sure that Sarah Palin will be glad to know that there are still some countries in the world not dominated by secularist political correctness, where Biblical values can be put into practice without any interference by the ACLU or liberal, activist judges.

Saudi Arabia, for example. now has at least two people , including a TV psychic, on death row for witchcraft.

Jeff Weintraub seems to disapprove.  But fortunetelling is consumer fraud, so the sentence on the TV psychic is a measure of consumer protection.  If the principle were extended to other forms of fraudulent fortunetelling, including stock-market punditry, the result would be both efficient and just.

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Comments

  1. Ed Whitney says

    December 7, 2009 at 11:38 am

    But Ex 22:17 does not exactly say "Kill witches." Lots of expressions for that. It says not to preserve them or raise them up (the same word can mean to cause grain to grow, for example). And in the Septuagint, the word for "witch" happens to be "pharmakous," with a verb that means "to make to remain over and above."

    So clearly, the Biblical passage means, "You shall not cause drug companies to make excessive profits." The Bible is mandating radical health care reform.

    The Senate had better drop it in gear before the Lord smites them.

  2. Thomas says

    December 7, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    Unfortunately Mark is so universally hostile to free speech that I can't tell whether he is joking or not.

  3. Mark Kleiman says

    December 8, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Joking? Joking?

    You'll discover whether or not I was joking, Thomas, when the Liberal Thought Police arrive to drag you off to Gitmo, where you will be tortured by having post-modern lit-crit essays read to you 24 hours a day.

  4. Thomas says

    December 8, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Anything to get away from the dreary midwestern winter. I hear Gitmo is much more comfortable now that the Democrats are in charge. Lucky for me that I enjoy post-modern lit-crit essays (though I do hate being read to).

  5. Barry says

    December 8, 2009 at 4:24 am

    OK, Thomas – how about 24hr/day Glenn Beck sessions? Until you beeeeeeg for some Rush 🙂

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