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To: LLCF who wrote (24909)	11/3/2002 8:35:46 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) of 74559

That is just one of many many examples in the Old Testament of commands to kill people in military offensive attacks. Read the first few of chapters of Deuteronomy. I know many verses there by memory as I had to memorize it to chant it in the synagogue many years ago: Haharem kol 'ir, mtim, nashim, vetaf Destroy every city, men, women and children. It wasn't so much that there are military campaigns there which may or may not have happened but that the prophets who came later were very hard line on killing all the enemy including children etc. Elijah was another nice dude who went round killing the prophets of Ba'al. Of course the Bible says that Queen Jezebel had the Jewish prophets put to death to. When some small children taunted Elijah's disciple Elisha, he called two bears out of the forest to kill them.... The only reason that Orthodox Judaism has suspended the commandments on killing the Amaleqites is because they don't know who they are any more... Then there is the legal code which I said prescribes the death penalty for all kinds of deviant behavior. There is one case of cutting off someone's hand as in the Islamic code, but for some other crime. The Rabbis in the Talmudic period claimed that the death penalty was rarely used as the standards of proof were very tough. That may have been true in later years, but that is the teaching in theory that these people should be killed. The death penalty has been suspended because there isn't a theocratic Jewish state. In Israel the rabbis only have jurisdiction over the marriage laws. Now obviously the Bible is a product of its times and was very progressive in many areas. But you seem to want to not believe that any of these behaviors were taught by today's major religions and are still believed in but maybe suspended on technical grounds. Now Islam has all the same ideas of holy wars and a punitive legal code but it is in action as there are Islamic states. There is little difference between Judaism and Islam. Islam is a universalized version of Judaism. As for the inquisition, crusades etc. in Christianity... well... David

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