--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Listen to how Joshua and Caleb describe the inhabitants of Canaan the > people who rightfully possess the land the Israelites want to > seize: "Have no fear then of the people of the country, for they are > our prey" (my italics). "Prey"that's a breathtaking and sinister > word! Again we're reminded that the Torah is not aspiring to be a book > for everyone. It is not preaching universal truth for all men. It is > the work of a single tribe at war with everyone around it. Their > enemies were not human: They were prey." > > http://www.slate.com/id/2146473/entry/2146669/?nav=tap3
I'm sorry, but it's just plain silly to pull some negative-sounding bit out of a scripture written thousands of years ago, then turn around and point fingers at the people whose scripture it is and sneer, See? See? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
