Broads and gays. I have no idea how anyone sees “witchcraft” as a crime, or even threatening.

some weird larp some bored broads made up

That's exactly what feminism is.

Do you think Saudi Arabia outlaws 'witchcraft', 'sorcery' and 'black magic' because their government believes it's real? Of course they don't.

They outlaw that stuff because it's a magnet for people who reject the current order, and worse, it helps these people find eachother and start working together to subvert society. u/auntie_mildred has it right.

Take every twitter account with 'witch', 'witchy', 'wicca', 'druid' or 'pagan' in their bio and you'll have list of political radicals from rainbow haired commie dykes to Varg Vikernes types.

Not to discount genuine, supernatural evil:

I have always believed the provisions against witchcraft are because it is ultimately an attempt to subvert the natural order. Instead of women building homes and communities and ultimately a good culture, it diverts women to hanging out with other rejects that hate the system and want to see it twisted to their own ends. They aren't happy with their lot in our life, so they conspire to make others suffer.

I think a good modern analog for witchcraft would be feminism.

Witchcraft, at least traditionally, usually involves some kind of devil worship, and the belief that the dead can speak, both of which go against Christian teachings.

One thing experience will teach you is, you're either forcing shit on to people or they're forcing it on to you. Sadly, we don't live in the libertarian world where we can coexist with the left. If it was just us? Sure, you do you, and I'll do me. But that's not possible with the left.

At the very least, you need to be vigilante with your beliefs and principles.

Here's an example of why the libertarian idea will never work.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/bitcoin-couple-face-death-penalty-for-seasteading-off-phuket/

It's a story of a couple that decided they were going to get away from government and society by living on international waters.

Sure enough, that didn't last long, and the Thailand government came, arrested them, and now they face the death penalty (not sure whatever happened to them).

As you can see, there is no escape, they will never leave you alone. Get busy pushing orders onto them or get busy following their orders. There's no in-between.

forcing people to our faith has shown to be disastrous.

BTW I do agree with this; it has been a disaster with all the progressive churches and what not.

My belief is: don't force people to be Christians. However, don't let them walk all over Christian principles in a Christian country. Make it so uninhabitable that they will want to leave.

I'm still trying to learn this stuff but killing people for sin goes against the principle of forgiveness. How does Christianity deal with old testament vs Christ and His teachings?

Sometime bratty children need to take their medicine

Shutup woman, and make me a sandwich.

- Allah

You do not need to be religious to be against abortion, child sacrifice, murder, incest. Not saying death penalty necessarily but not ruling it out depending on the circumstance.

Bestiality, I just find that to be horrible, wtf is wrong with this people.

Homosexuality is a bit special, is a sin under religion but without religion this are just 2 adults agreeing to live in sin. Without religion they are not hurting anyone but themselves. This does not include trying to groom children in to it, I think that in itself is worthy of punishment. Groomers are evil and forcing people to celebrate perversions against their own moral code is evil as well.

That leaves idolatry and witchcraft. While this are still sins under most religions it has no direct impact without it.

I agree. All he is doing is turning people away

Yeah, shit like this is the reason why a lot of people (myself included) have become disenfranchised with organized religion. You have the two-faced preachers like Ted Haggard condemning sin from one corner of his mouth because the other is too busy smoking meth, the opulent megachurches that erect a blazing middle finger to the teachings of their leader, and the prototype for what would become the Social Justice moment.

If they wanted more people to join the flock, the best way would be to live their lives by their teachings and act in a way that would inspire people.

There is an explicit offer of forgiveness in the second part of the tweet. Whether his use of "death penalty" refers to a specific government punishment, or more generally to the "wages of sin" is somewhat ambiguous (it could have been made a bit more clear if he included some "lesser" sins in there like lying/perjury, theft, or covetousness, but I can see why you wouldn't include those on a twitter post.) And if you don't believe that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment, I can find citations from the New Testament that support this as being one of the roles of government.

Irrespective, I find no contradiction between the idea that the proper government penalty for a crime should be death, and that we should offer forgiveness and a second chance to repentant souls.