In article , sp_nrc{at}hotmail.com
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>Ok, now I'm a nice guy,

So you say, but what you did in this post does _not_ support that conclusion.

> and I believe that killing is bad.  I also know
>that god said something like "Thou shalt not murder."

Good...

>Now here's what makes me angry.  God says, "thou shall not murder,"
>however he commands Joshua and his armies to kill countless women and
>children.  NOW WAIT A SECOND?!!!  PREGNANT WOMEN!

There are things worse than death. If you do not understand that, then _most_ of
the Bible will remain mysterious to you. Perhaps if they had lived, they would
have been exposed only to things worse than death. If you have studied the filth
that passed for 'religion' in Canaan in those days, you could easily believe
that they really _would_ have been exposed only to what is worse than death.


What is more, if you read on to the later centuries, you will see that the
Hebrew people too, when _they_ were the ones to transgress, were punished with
similar harshness, even exile and death, for transgressing the Law and forsaking
the Lord.

>NO, WAIT A SECOND, LET'S COMMITT GENOCIDE ON THE PEOPLE'S WHO LIVE IN
>THE PROMISED LAND!
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>Now, wait a second, (this is a dangerous thing to say),

You are right, it is dangerous. So why did you rush into the danger?

> people say the
>holocaust was bad (of course it was bad, people dying etc.), but the
>Jewish (Israeli) god told the Israeli people to committ genocide on the
>people's who lived in the promised land.  (I always think of this as
>something separate and not really connected with my argument).  Now,
>the Christian belief is that killing is bad right?

WRONG. It is that _murder_ is bad. You got this right just a little while ago,
how did you get it wrong now? How can you hope to understand the answers to your
other questions until you get these more elementary questions answered
consistenly correctly?

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Subudcat se sibi ut haereat Deo
quidquid boni habet, tribuat illi a quo factus est.
(St. Augustine, Ser. 96)

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