Any time someone justifies something as being “in the bible” they should get 30 seconds to back that up by citing and reading the passage that backs it up, with context. If they fail to do this, death.

Because they’re comfortable living under fascism.

The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the “good Germans” had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared.

Since many “middle Americans” already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so.

- Michael Parenti. (1996). Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit

That is unfathomably based

did they at least have a cover charge for the Althing? can’t have the law be both legible and freely accessible.

"uhm akshully Nicolae was a commie, so you should like this! "

What matters isn’t the intellectual or moral credibility of the law, just that it’s on the books and can be used to pursue modern goals. Explaining these things in terms of credibility or intelligence is missing the point, which is christofascism.

Child coal miners, approximately 30 years after this law was passed