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While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian or Jew arguing for a symbolic reading of passages of this sort. [...] it is only by ignoring such barbarisms that the Good Book can be reconciled with life in the modern world. This is a problem for moderation in religion: it has nothing underwriting it other than the unacknowledged neglect of the letter of the divine law.

Sam Harris

While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian or Jew arguing for a symbolic reading of passages of this sort. [...] it is only by ignoring such barbarisms that the Good Book can be reconciled with life in the modern world. This is a problem for moderation in religion: it has nothing underwriting it other than the unacknowledged neglect of the letter of the divine law.

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