The American Family Association has decided to blame the death of the SeaWorld trainer last week on the company not following the Bible:

Chalk another death up to animal rights insanity and to the ongoing failure of the West to take counsel on practical matters from the Scripture. […] Says the ancient civil code of Israel, “When an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner shall not be liable.” (Exodus 21:28) So, your animal kills somebody, your moral responsibility is to put that animal to death. You have no moral culpability in the death, because you didn’t know the animal was going to go postal on somebody. But, the Scripture soberly warns, if one of your animals kills a second time because you didn’t kill it after it claimed its first human victim, this time you die right along with your animal. To use the example from Exodus, if your ox kills a second time, “the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.” (Exodus 21:29)

(via ThinkProgress)

Again this is a case of “picking and choosing” what parts of the Bible, or even Exodus 21, should be followed. For example:

• And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. (Exodus 21:15)
• And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. (Exodus 21:17)
• Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,  Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. (Exodus 21:24-25)

But if we are to follow the words the author laid out above, then the owner is to be put the death – not the trainer. So does that mean we are to line up all the stock owners of SeaWorld and execute them? I don’t know about you, but that sure isn’t the world I want to live in. Apparently though, that’s the kind of world the AFA wants.

And who says we don’t have religious fanatics here in the U.S.?