No, the analogy is not complete. They justify a wanton destruction of innocents, like in Num. 31 - without any military purpose whatsoever, and then, on purely utilitarian grounds (they couldn't have assimilated infants, etc., so it was OK to kill them).
"I'm talking about real history, not about Bible."
They're talking about the Bible.
As for the rest - all I did was to classify it as genocide (and it was, although quite possibly only legendary), and to classify the posting and comment at that link as justification of this genocide.
Everybody can decide for him/herself whether genocide is bad, good, justifiable, etc. I said nothing about this. ;-)
Moral relativism, I see.
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No, the analogy is not complete. They justify a wanton destruction of innocents, like in Num. 31 - without any military purpose whatsoever, and then, on purely utilitarian grounds (they couldn't have assimilated infants, etc., so it was OK to kill them).
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ReplyDeleteThey're talking about the Bible.
As for the rest - all I did was to classify it as genocide (and it was, although quite possibly only legendary), and to classify the posting and comment at that link as justification of this genocide.
Everybody can decide for him/herself whether genocide is bad, good, justifiable, etc. I said nothing about this. ;-)