The command to kill witches was given to Israel, but is a moral guide for the rest of us. Even in Israel their was a legal process. You didn't go out and kill a witch unilaterally on sight, you hauled them before the community, which tried them.
We aren't under Israeli law, but if we did adopt a law outlawing witchcraft and spiritism, I would not consider that law immoral.
We've been through this before. You seem to think I should have some objection to Israel killing witches. I don't.
Does that not apply to the 14 year old daughter of my neighbor who proclaims she's a wikkan and casts spells?
Again, there is no law against witches in this country. To kill a witch here would be against the law, and therefore immoral.
Whereas, it does apply to child murderers?
Child murderers are prosecuted under the law for murder. That didn't even make sense that you brought them up.
Just how much silly, irrelevant torque do you think you can apply to a phrase from the bible to bend it to your will, without getting called out by the referee?"
What torque? The Bible says Israel should kill witches. And I'm fine with that. Are you the referee?
Does that apply as well to "thou shalt not steal", and "thou shalt not kill"? That's what came just before the commandment "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". Are those also just obscure tribal rules, rather than moral instruction from God? Maybe you have a checklist as to which parts of God's instructions are moral precepts and which are the parts where we're supposed to go wink wink nudge nudge.
If it wasn't against modern law to kill you mother, would you also consider killing your mother ok? Just because of the 10 commandments, which you apparently consider just a morally meaningless tribal taboo--like that witch thing.
I didn't bring it up, you did. When you had your other hat on, and were trying to justify murdering witches on the basis that some ancient tribe ritually murdered their children.
So you do, in fact, if civil law reflected moral law, think we should not suffer my 14 year old wikkan neighbor to live, in keeping with the moral instruction from the bible: "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"?