Outside of the Bible, no archaeological evidence has been left behind by this tribe. Even after the genocide, their name continues to crop up in the Bible for hundreds of years. Some suggest the possibility that 'Amalekites' are those who are totally ruthless to the point of evil towards Jews. For example, Jews often refer to Nazis as Amalekites.
yes, it's funny that. The Jews committed genocide and justified it in their bible. Then the Nazis did the same thing to them. And now they do the same thing to the Palestinians. Some people never learn.
Joe, I know you prefer a genocidal God. From the Jewish perspective it appears the Amalekites were a tribe of villains who did not observe any of the ways or treaties regarding travelers that we in play. To Amalekites, travelers were prey and therefore fair game. They played by their own rules.
Again, the bible called for killing every last Amalekite man, woman and child. Something that if I did when I was a soldier, I would be brought up on war crimes charges. Heck, Saul was cursed for not killing their cattle! I mean, seriously, what did the cattle do?
First, she might look up what qualifies as a parasite. A parasite attaches to the body of its host for life, or until its host dies. Something that routinely leaves the hosts body in less than a year is not a parasite.
However, I understand thinking "parasite" in place of "baby" completes the dehumanization process and therefore, in your eyes, excuses getting rid of a human life.
Actually, most parasites never kill the host. Secondly, a fetus isn't a human because it isn't viable. The whacky Catholic interpretation of life beginning at conception has all sorts of implications that would be really bad for Gyno-Americans. Every miscarriage should be treated like a potential homicide investigation. In Vitro fertilization should be treated as a crime, because those embryos are being held without benefit of habeus corpus. Women could be charged with assault for eating the wrong food, having a smoke or a sip of wine during pregnancy.
Me. I Like Freedom.
We refuse to dehumanizing a life. Notice, in one post, you have used the dehumanizing technique twice. It is a human life, Joe. You just went on a rant against genocide and how bad that is, and then turn around and cheer on a world that has killed/destroyed millions of lives. It is as if you see the unborn as Amalekites.
Quite the contrary. In Joe's ideal world, we'd have no abortions because women would only sleep with men who are good father material and contraception would work well every time because people would know how to use it.
We don't live in an ideal world.
Now, when I was in the service, I knew a young lady who was a devout Catholic, and came from a very strict Asian-American family. She was college educated, so not a stupid woman. She was dating one of my fellow NCO's who was pretty much a cad. Well, he wasn't making good on his promise to marry her, So she stopped taking her birth control pills, got pregnant, and had an abortion when he refused to marry her. Oh, but it gets better. You think that one kick of the mule would be enough.. Nope. She got back together with him a year later and it happened again.
Abortion is needed in a world because people are basically stupid.
I doubt even your church/school changed Mass readings. I have no idea why a Catholic school wouldn't study the Old Testament, but my earlier statement about you not paying attention in Church, stands.
Oh, they taught the old testament, but only the parts that filled in with their philosophy.
So nothing about Jephthah butchering his daughter as a burnt offering.
Nothing about Elijah siccing bears on children.
Nothing about Samuel telling Saul to murder all the Amalekites.
A couple of the really awful stories they couldn't avoid, like the flood, but then they would rationalize God killing every baby (and FETUS!) in the world as them being "wicked". Because God gave them free will, he killed them all for making choices he didn't like, and after the few survivors continued to engage in evil, God just said, 'Meh, I'll just selectively murder people for that."
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