Oh, I know there are the “nice” bits like “suffer not the little children to come unto me”… not that I think that encouraging children to believe in imaginary fiends with eternally burning fire pits is a particularly noble day’s work…
… but according to the New Testament of the Wholly Bile of Christinanity, Jesus rebuked a crowd for not following the law of Moses that required parents of children who cursed them to participate in pelting the child to death with hundreds of sharp stones.
Let’s have a look, shall we?
We can start with Mark 7:
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban —
12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
The Jesus character in the story is clearly referencing Exodus 21:
17 “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
And Leviticus 20:
9 “‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
And Deuteronomy 21:
A Rebellious Son
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
So… a simple question for discussion:
According to the Wholly Bile of Christinanity, did Jesus approve of filicide in some circumstances?