I'm not encouraging people to adhere to the literalness of the texts and to relive them now. I used the Little Engine That Could is a goof. How about The Catcher In The Rye?Because they ignore those parts of the text. It doesn’t make those part any less heinous, and it doesn’t change the fact that some people do commit atrocities because of those parts. Which is why it’s ridiculous to compare those books to a children’s story and imply that it’s just crazy people looking for an excuse that they could find in any book.
The vast majority did used to adhere to those injunctions, until secular law came along and beat them into submission.