--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> 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? > The point I was making was that things have not changed over the course of thousands of years -- "a single tribe at war with everyone around it." As far as your claim that this is scripture belonging only to Jews, that's not true, as the Book of Numbers is part of both Christian and Islamic tradition. If you don't like the tone of Numbers 13, you probably will also not like Numbers 31, in which Moses tells his soldiers to kill everybody in an enemy tribe, except virgin girls: http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/wb/wb33.htm 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man keep alive for yourselves. The modern exception, of course, is that of the hundreds of innocent civilians that Israel is slaughtering in Lebanon, there are undoubtedly also many virgin girls. I'm not saying that Jews are worse than anybody else, but they are certainly no better, and that has always been the case. In order to keep from having to kill their neighbors in order to enforce their occupation of Palestine, which Arabs have been trying to reverse since day one, the Jews should leave Palestine and live happily elsewhere. If they don't, the numerical superiority and increasing sophistication of the Arab/Muslim world will sooner and later vacate Palestine on terms not favorable to the occupiers. Anybody who does not see this train wreck coming (actually, the train wreck has been in progress for some time) is just blinded by Zionist propaganda. 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/
