Then the LORD said to Moses: “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. Say to the Israelites: ‘If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.”
Lev 24:13-16
So…. doesn’t appear to be anything new here. Those who think Rushdie should be executed are probably in the mainstream of human history, and those few of you libertines of present and past couple of centuries are the oddballs.
If the UN puts a quote from an OT prophet on its front step, then why is it unreasonable to think that the concept of blasphemy enters into the process of one of its councils?
If the majority of mankind has some religious sympathy of one kind or another, why would you not expect that an international body picks up on that nature of mankind?
