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To: Suma who wrote (35502)	3/17/2007 12:02:10 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) of 541349

If one was to go by the basis of this kind of thinking... THY SHALL NOT KILL... ( I don't remember reading any exceptions in the Bible ) You could re-read the descriptions (specifically ordered by God and Moses) of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Old Testament. A couple of examples: 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. Numbers 31 is also instructive. Under Moses, the Israelites killed all of the Midianites except for the virgin girls who were kept as sex slaves. The Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, all indigenous peoples, were slaughtered by the Israelites on God's command in order create a homeland. It always makes me smile in a cynical way when the military that deals in the business of killing takes a stand on morality... Seems hard to make a Biblical case that the military represents the most immoral of all human beings.

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