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NullTuples

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1. "named after a Biblical verse" is a bit of an understatement

Reply to Across-the-Desk (Original post)

Sun Jan 15, 2023, 12:26 PM

Jan 2023

The "Millstone verse" refers to the tying of a large, heaving milling stone to a person's neck and drowning them in a deep body of water as punishment for allowing or encouraging especially children to live in a way other than is prescribed by the Bible. It goes way beyond punishing so-called sinners, and this bill completely trashes the idea of not having a state-sponsored religion.

Matthew 18:6
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

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"named after a Biblical verse" is a bit of an understatement NullTuples Jan 2023 #1