Biblical Child Abuse

"And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, little boys (ne'arim qetannim) came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, 'Go up, baldhead! Go up, baldhead!' And he turned back, saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore apart forty-two of the boys."

"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."

A gang of kids make fun of a grown prophet because he's bald. Instead of ignoring them like an adult, God's chosen prophet calls down a holy curse in the name of Yahweh. God promptly summons two grizzly mother bears to rip forty-two children limb from limb in the street. Apologists bend over backwards claiming they were "young adult gangsters threatening his life," but the Hebrew text literally says ne'arim qetannim—little boys. Even if they were sixteen, feeding four dozen kids to carnivores over a receding hairline is pure, psychopathic violence.

"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they discipline him and he will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst."

"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."

If a son refuses to obey his parents, talks back, drinks, or exhibits stubborn behavior, God does not prescribe parental patience, family counseling, or restitution. Under biblical civil law, God commands both the mother and the father to physically seize their own child, drag him before the town elders at the public city gate, and publicly accuse him. The statutory penalty is mandatory: the entire community of grown men must gather with stones and smash the young man's skull and body until he is dead in the dirt. Modern apologists try to brush this off by claiming the rebellious son was actually an adult criminal or that this law was "rarely carried out," but the black-letter text does not establish an age of majority—it establishes parental honor killing enforced by mob execution as a holy mandate to "purge evil."