@ostrich @georgetakei The most likely rendering is in the main text. Again, if you have to go the rabbi's, you're looking for confirmation of your own preconceived notion that you want to be there.

@ostrich @georgetakei Oops - thanks. https://www.esv.org/verses/Exodus%2021%3A22–23/

@ostrich @georgetakei So that others can evaluate. https://www.esv.org/verses/Exodus%2020%3A22–23/ The most likely understanding is that it's referring to harm done to the child. Or it is both. Any other reading is reading into the text what you want to be there. Read the Bible the way you'd want your own email read.

@ostrich @georgetakei You sound like someone who hasn't looked much into that of which you speak. I mean, it's OK - we're all ignorant of certain things. But you got Proverbs 18:2 all over you.

@rbreich Sir, you quoted WaPo to make your point. BTW, if we know what they owe, then why do they do their own taxes? Why not just have the government start confiscating? I mean, it worked for Stalin, right?

@Jake_Vig Um, the present regime included?

@elliottjustin White leftists just hate to see black folk leave their ideological plantation . . .

@krrw Hello. Might you define "free speech" and "hate speech"? And then might you tell us your standard for said definitions? For the sake of intellectual honesty and clarity.