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I posted a shorter version of the following on another list:
IMO, with the slaughters in the TaNaH or in the Qur'An, the only right
and wrong is what God wills through His Prophets. The same is true today.
"Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress
limits; for God loves not transgressors. And slay them wherever you
catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for
tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter.... But if they cease,
God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.... If they cease, let there be no
hostility except to those who practice oppression"
Qur'An 2:190-193 (A. Yusuf Ali translation)
And Samuel saith unto Saul, "Me did Jehovah send to anoint thee for king
over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words
of Jehovah:
'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have looked after that which Amalek did
to Israel, that which he laid for him in the way in his going up out of
Egypt. Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it
hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto
woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'"
1 Samuel 15:1-3 (Young's Literal Translation)
The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.
Baha'u'llah (Shoghi Effendi, Promised Day is Come, page 3)
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:) Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociologist
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