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To: koan who wrote (255508)	7/9/2014 2:53:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542244

"With the Jews it was always terrible blatant racism based on nothing." Not true; often we relied on the standard "But God told us to do it". In fact, we were the first of the Abrahamics to trot out that line. " They were not hurting people." You need to read the Torah. 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. You know how slaveholders justified slavery behind the Bible? That would be the Torah; Exodus. Short version is God frees Jews from slavery, gives them rules about how to treat their slaves.