Hegseth announced last week that the US public would be able to see the execution of Nidal Hasan, which is set for 3 December at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, a former army major and psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. A military court sentenced him to death in August 2013.

ā€œWe’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,ā€ Hegseth said. ā€œIt was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers – as it should be.ā€

The de facto leader of Hegseth’s theocratic Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), Douglas Wilson, welcomed the announcement.

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    Just for the record it’s ā€œmurderā€, not ā€œkillā€.

    Murder is the unjustified killing of another, and to be clear, their god justified bashing babies against rocks over an imagined slight that didn’t happen hundreds of years prior,

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      Also their god thought an appropriate response to children making fun of a bald guy was sending bears to maul them.

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      Interesting.

      I’d always considered that the translation that resulted in the virgin (chaste) Mary rather than virgin (unwed) was dubious; but not extended that to murder/death/kill for that commandment.

      Bullshit is as bullshit does as it momma used to say

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        I mean, I don’t know of any translation that puts it as ā€œyou shall not killā€ā€¦ particularly since the law of Moses also makes it very clear that one should most certainly kill for all sorts of things.

        I mean, off the top of my head…

        • murder
        • men who rape another’s wife or betrothed
        • women who are raped inside the town, if no one hears her call out. (The rapist is also offed,)
        • women who willingly have sex with another man
        • gay men.
        • witches
        • blasphemers and idolaters
        • women who didn’t bleed on their wedding night.
        • intentionally working on the sabbath
        • being an unruly teenager (talking back to your parents or insulting them, disobedience.)
        • false prophecy.

        And then there’s all the numerous times god commanded genocides.

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            That was just god being a dick, rather than being an actual legal code.

            Which means he was in one of his better moods. I mean, really. Supposedly, he once offed most the planet just because some angels (or possibly his children…) came down and started boinking some girls.

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              Part of the argument is that all of God’s words are law, which makes sense. If a perfect omnipotent omniscient being tells you anything: it’s law.

              If He says not to look back (ignoring the obvious metaphor) then doing so invites Divine retribution.

              Urgh, now I feel like Micheal Bay responding to every Goof in his movies on IMBD.