There's extremes to every religion, if you followed the bible to the letter you'd stone people for mixing fabrics. (I'm sure there's other examples from the other religious texts, but I can't think of them). We need to remember to not let the worst of every group define our view of said group.
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The diference there is that you would only stone fellow Jews that would know better....versus nonbelievers that don't. And plus, that was before Christ