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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: Scriptural Food for Thought
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.180422.10309@s1.gov>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:04:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.134637.20136@linus.mitre.org> zobell@lute.mitre.org (Steve Zobell) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.214253.5281@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- ::Such is the "Final Solution of the Canaanite Question". The only
- ::justification other than "the land is for us, not for them" that is
- ::ever presented is given in Leviticus (which describes none of these
- ::great victories), where we are told that they practiced homosexual
- ::acts and other wicked things -- right after where it states that male
- ::homosexual acts should be punished by death to all participants.
- :
- :God clearly stated His reason for the genocide:
- :
- : Otherwise they will teach you to follow all the detestable
- : things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin
- : against the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 20:18 - NIV)
- :
- :As if there was something more detestable than genocide!
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- They were *EVIL*, that's why :-)
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- What better reason could one need? :-):-)
-
- Why weren't they reformed? An omnipotent being could certainly
- imprint correct behavior on troublesome people and not go through the
- trouble that human moralists have to go through.
-
- /Loren
-