[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
Ah, yes, “context”: The great shield and defender of all hideous acts encouraged and sanctioned by the Christian Bible.
Even when you give three whole verses leading up to the one blatantly telling you to kill a non-believer, as smallnomore did, you will always need more “context”.
Unless “thou shalt surely kill him” was actually meant to read, “thou shalt give him a dozen roses and a hand job”, and the monks translating the Bible into English just had a little too much wine at dinner that night, I don’t see how you can spin this to mean anything except what it says.[/quote]
Digital, it’s a shame you have such a negative view regarding the Christian and Jewish religions; of course you’re entitled to do so but that doesn’t give ridiculous statements along those lines any validity, nor false statements such as claiming that, for example, what I wrote was “spin.”
Perhaps it’s just lack of knowledge (along with bias) and you actually don’t know the context, thus you act as if it’s irrelevant to point it out.
The context is this: Not one of these Biblical instructions to kill those that were enemies against them in their own country was an instruction to go seek out people minding their own business and living in their own countries and kill them for not belonging to the Jewish religion.
In contrast to the Koranic teaching that throughout all the world, anyone who does not submit to Islam is properly killed, and the murderer receiving maximum unique reward from their God for doing so. Grasp the difference?
The situation was not unlike with Palestinian terrorists. For example, in the war back in the 70s where the PLO was driven back onto a spit of land of Lebanon and could have all been destroyed, a foolish decision was made to allow them to retreat and attack another day. For the sake of the nation, these dedicated enemies of the nation – murderous terrorists, all of them – should have been killed.
That is NOT equivalent, no matter how much you want it to be, to Muslim terrorists and their Koran teaching to murder unbelievers throughout the world, for all time everywhere not specific cases of murderous enemies within their nation.
The “spin” is folk like you who try to portray the Jewish and Christian religious texts as allegedly murderous (deliberately failing to make the distinction between killing necessary in war or for other reasons e.g. extreme criminal acts, and murder, not the same things) and the Koran as being allegedly a book of peace.
Sorry, there are tens of thousands, if not more, of murderous terrorists who will tell you specifically it’s the Koran that motivates them to murder Americans (and Jews), and they are in fact guilty of committing this terrorist, so all these excuses that their religion allegedly does not teach this, let alone attempts at moral equivalism trying to claim the Christian and Jewish are equally bad or worse, is just far beyond what any rational mind should be putting out, and is easily enough, and already has been, refuted.
Give it a rest – calling the Koran a messsage of peace and trying to pretend the Bible teaches killing people for not being Christians or Jews, reflects ONLY on yourself, not on any actuality, and in a time when Islamic terrorists are killing Americans based on that Koran, frankly it disgusts me to see this attempt to prop up those teachings. Of course, whatever enemy
America has, there’s always going to be the Jane Fondas who will tout that the enemy is good, will adore that enemy, and will excoriate America and any belief widely held by Middle America. Absurd statements are one thing, but false statements made with a motivation like that – to be an apologist for a murderous enemy – deserve to be pointed out for just what they are.
And exactly why you and others are trying to prop up the Koran as allegedly being peaceful, and attack the Jewish and Christian religious for supposedly being murderous or having murderous teachings, is beyond anyone’s ability to figure out how it’s relevant to this thread?