To the editor:
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This observation was clearly made by someone who has never read the Bible, or, at least, never read it carefully enough to remember what it says, as is clear from Leviticus 21:9 that the punishment for priests’ daughters who become prostitutes is death by fire, not death by stoning. As for mediums, no punishment whatsoever is mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:11, only a prohibition; and even if Exodus 22:17 were to be applied to mediums, which is a reading not warranted by the text, there is no mention there of death by stoning, the only source for which appears to be L. Olson’s imagination. Someone who employs the text of the Bible–or any text, for that matter–for polemics bears a minimal intellectual responsibility to know the text.
Later in the same section, at the top of page 10 [Snips], the Reader published the following bon mot, and labeled it “the perfect question”:
N. Whipple
