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Subject:	Re: The Brick Testament: Joshua and the Israelites Massacre Twenty-Nine Kingdoms
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:44:27 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Brendan Powell Smith wrote: > The Brick Testament website has been updated today with two new illustrated > Bible stories from the continuing saga of Joshua and the Israelites: "Seven > Kingdoms Massacred" and "Twenty-Two Kingdoms Massacred". > > http://bricktestament.com/joshua > > or > > http://bricktestament.com/latest_additions > > (NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take > note of the content warnings for the stories before viewing.) > > Enjoy, > > -The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith If there is any jewish person in the audience, I'd like to ask this: How does your religion explain or justify all the slaughter? "Thou shalt not kill", yeah, right. O_o Is there a specific reason why Yawheh wanted all those people dead? Had they committed a sin against him that the Bible mentions somewhere else in the story? Or perhaps just simply occupying Israel's future "promised land" is sin enough?

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		Re: The Brick Testament: Joshua and the Israelites Massacre Twenty-Nine Kingdoms
(...) Not that I'm really qualified to answer, but I am jewish... (...) I'll avoid the issue - the bible actually says "do not murder", not "do not kill". War isn't murder, therefor there's no problem. (...) Basically, for the israelites to get to (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: The Brick Testament: Joshua and the Israelites Massacre Twenty-Nine Kingdoms
(...) Dan did a very good job at answering that first question - killing versus murder. There is indeed a very real difference between the two, Biblically speaking. I am not Jewish, but as a Christian with a decent amount of Biblical knowledge I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		The Brick Testament: Joshua and the Israelites Massacre Twenty-Nine Kingdoms
The Brick Testament website has been updated today with two new illustrated Bible stories from the continuing saga of Joshua and the Israelites: "Seven Kingdoms Massacred" and "Twenty-Two Kingdoms Massacred". (URL) For anyone unfamiliar with The (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient) !

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