polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 28
th, 2017 at 4:52pm:
freediver wrote on Apr 27
th, 2017 at 8:48pm:
I have read it, and part of the Koran. The Torah documents violence. To Koran calls for it. The are entire chapters of the Koran devoted to commanding Muslims to slay and be slain.
FD would you describe this as a
command from God to perform genocide?
Quote:16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction,1 the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, 18 that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.
Not at all, G, it's just self-help.
Plenty of Christians referenced verses like this during the invasion of Iraq, which they called Babylon. Taking out Iraqis had a holy significance; a religious duty. They invoked Sodom, Gomorrah, pillars of salt and fire and brimstone galore, like they often do in times of war.
Christians don't go for terrorism because they lead the empire. Instead, they go for good, old testament military supremacy - with God's help, of course.