Bible morality - Violence

Hopefully the first in a series of videos looking at the bible. This one deals with genocides in the bible. Hopefully others will deal with other moral problems as well as historical and sciency ones.

My appologies for the audio track, my first one didn't work out so well so I had to audio swap for random you tube one.

17/4/09 Edited the title as the video covers more than just genocides.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• atheist
• atheism
• god
• christianity
• bible
• morality
• genocides
• genocide
• killing
• violence

[Mohammediscalling]

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[DePetrick]

The problem is that other religious idiots take such "proof" ( lol) as a fact and especially as a "proof" that their own religion is better;-)

[BattleshipTx]

War in the Broze Age was always genocidal if a victory was decisive. They didn't have prisoner of war camps and prisons. They didn't have child protective services and orphans homes. What do you think hapens to children if their fathers and male extended family in the tribe die? Women and children can't live on their own in the Bronze age.

[eskimohunterrob]

BTW when you've finished saying being at war with someone justifies genocide... yeah lets go and kill the taliban, acording to you it's cool to kill their families as well including women and children and also their livestock etc.... WTF. An example of chrisitan morality for you.

Are you going to comment on any of the other points raised in the video? So far you've just tried (and failed) to justify one of the many evil acts I mentioned

[eskimohunterrob]

If you read the chapter it clearly shows that the isrealites were in some valley nearby when the kenites deserted.

Yeah they killed off some israelites as they wandered up THOUGH THEIR LAND. Everyone has the right to protect their property surely? Anyway this still doesn't justify the complete anihalation of EVERYTHING in the city: pregnant women, old people, children, babies, cattle, sheep and men and women with no mercy. WTF? War does not permit genocide, you are a sick man to say so

[eskimohunterrob]

I understand they didn't go round the world 4 times lol. Again the bible probably exaggerates on the whole 40 years thing.

Anyway again I merely point out that this is just plain silly. The idea that after going fround for 40 years in a desert 120 miles across by 200 long they wouldn't find a way out. That's just silly on a biblical scale

[eskimohunterrob]

From research it seems israel only rested on the 3rd saturday or something up untill around 300 BC. Just a side point.

Lol you missed the point of me saying the numbers. This army is HUGE. Like massive, and kinda silly beacsue there is no way israel could have fielded that many people. My point was that the bible would appear to be exaggerating. Not that isreal should have killed more people.

[BattleshipTx]

"Ghengis Khan conqured most of the world with an army of 115,000,"

Yes, but he didn't have to rest on Saturday, did he?

So now you are griping that Israel wasn't warlike enough? That it didn't conquer enough territory to match Genghis Khan? World military domination sounded pretty good to Genghis, but that's not really what Israel was about. When war wasn't imminent, its soldiers went back to their families and farms and livestock. Ghengis Khan's men were dedicated horse soldiers.

[BattleshipTx]

Well not quite, saul saved one man and some cattle so god got pissed off "

Intentionally defying God, yes, he tends to not like that in the king of his chosen people.

[BattleshipTx]

The whole point of wandering in the desert was going over the same ground over and over until the older jews died out. You don't "wander" in straight lines.

wander

verb

1 a: to move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal b: to go idly about : ramble

2: to follow a winding course : meander

3 a: to go astray (as from a course) :

transitive verb:

to roam over