How's that for some Class A viciousness? Picture it, so your latest genocide is drawing to a close. It's taken non-stop solid days of slaughter in the city to put all the men, women, and children to the sword and dash all the babies' heads against the rocks. You and the boys are tired, but it's a good kind of tired and you want nothing more than lay back, eat these peoples food and force their daughters to pleasure you before you kill them, too, but you know there are still some survivors hiding in terror in hard to reach places. But when God says "utterly destroy", he means "utterly destroy" so you dare not stop yet. But then, do you have a great God or what? Those people who were hiding in terror from you? haha, God sent hornets in to drive them out of their hiding places so you could quickly and easily finish them off and get to raping--the fun part. Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. Deut 7:20Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. Deut 7:20Of course I'm going to look at you. You are the one reading the bible like an idiot.Don't look at me. It's your Bible:Holy smoke, so you believe God smote the enemies of the Jews? That's it. Your card to the adult club has been revoked, you fundie.Embellishment? "Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them" is embellishment? No, Dingles, embellishment would be something like, "Thou shalt smite them as your fathers smote, riding across the desert at a full gallop in drag, and utterly destroy them and turn them into blood mist and bestow upon them their very own Holocaust story."You do realize this is embellishment, right? You make the same mistake evangelicals make. You read this literally. C'mon man, don't make me revoke your membership from the adult club.When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,... And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Deut 7:1, 2Provide a quote from Tanach.Why would any universal God demand what is, frankly, xenophobia from just one tribe (and the enslavement or genocide of all the others?) It is the opposite of a universal God. It is a tribal god and a particularly blood-thirsty one.According to scripture and Jewish tradition, God wished to have a people who placed themselves apart from others to live by a more austere code than other nations. The rest of us could live by a more relaxed code of our own choosing. God wasn't abandoning either group.At its root, it refers to the core Jewish belief that the Creator of the Universe also has a special and unique relationship with His chosen people."
And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: Deut 7:16
Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them means thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them. A command by your God. Actually it is you who sounds like a fundamentalist. Every time they come to a blatant contradiction like page 1: God loves mankind, page 2: God incinerates mankind because some dude wore a dress, the fundamentalists all cry in unison, it was a different dispensation, a word which means "this contradiction is hereby defined as not a contradiction". you just use "embellishment" instead of "dispensation"
And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. Deut 2:33-35
I'll bet Israel has a drone right now called Hornet and it will be used to track people down.
Interesting video. He's saying that the tales of violence are about breaking the seal (understanding?) of the violence as being about being all in against sin?