On 8/4/05, Susan Maneck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it depends on the degree to which the mob represents the values of the community as a whole. For example, if you look at the prevalence of lynching of Blacks in the US and the frequency with which it occured and the extent to which the guilty people went unpunished... aspects of the practice may have been illegal but it was condoned.
So if anti-semitism and fear of witchcraft or opposition to heresy are community values, and Christian mobs implement those sentiments publically through stoning, and go unpunished I'm not sure if you can actually say that no Christian community has ever practiced stoning.
In any case, apparently Constantine who founded the Bogomils was sentenced to stoning by the Emperor.
Peace
Dear Gilberto,Mob violence (which usually involves throwing rocks) cannot be equated with executions by stoning.
I think it depends on the degree to which the mob represents the values of the community as a whole. For example, if you look at the prevalence of lynching of Blacks in the US and the frequency with which it occured and the extent to which the guilty people went unpunished... aspects of the practice may have been illegal but it was condoned.
So if anti-semitism and fear of witchcraft or opposition to heresy are community values, and Christian mobs implement those sentiments publically through stoning, and go unpunished I'm not sure if you can actually say that no Christian community has ever practiced stoning.
In any case, apparently Constantine who founded the Bogomils was sentenced to stoning by the Emperor.
Peace
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