Not all Christians stand with modern Israel. But all Christians stand with ancient Israel. Not all Christians believe that Israel has “the right to defend itself” by committing a genocide in Palestine and invading other countries. But all Christians have been taught that ancient Israel had the right — and even the sacred duty — to exterminate the Amalekites, “man and woman, babe and suckling” because they stood in the way of Israel’s conquest of Canaan (1Samuel 15:3).
All Christians are expected to stand with Moses when, in Numbers 31, he ordered his men to slaughter all the Midianites, as a punishment for having encouraged the Israelites to intermarry with the Moabites. Moses was enraged with the army commanders for sparing the women and the children, but finally allowed them to keep for themselves “the young girls who have never slept with a man.” The booty amounted to thirty-two thousand girls, of which Yahweh required 0.1 percent as his own “portion”, offered to him presumably as holocausts, together with Yahweh’s portion of oxen, cattle, donkeys and sheep.
Where does this kind of story fit on the scale of civilization? It belongs, at best, to “prehistoric warfare” as described by Lawrence Keeley in War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, when the extermination of enemy tribes was not uncommon, and “[t]he capture of women was one of the spoils of victory — and occasionally one of the primary aims of warfare — for many tribal warriors. … The social position of captive women varied widely among cultures, from abject slaves to concubines to secondary wives to full spouses.”[1] In ancient Israel, “abject slaves” seems to have been the case. “Full spouses” was out of the question, since the whole justification for the massacre was to prevent intermarriage. Sex with non-Israelites is fine, as long as “no bastard shall enter the assembly of Yahweh, nor any descendant of his even to the tenth generation” (Deuteronomy 23:3). This, rather than any special respect for women, explains the rule that a Jewish mother is required for being a Jew.
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“God’s chosen people! God’s chosen people!” We have heard that over and over and over. But who is this god that “gave” Israel to the Jews? What kind of god orders his “chosen” to slaughter every man, woman, child, and even the goats and sheep? Doesn’t sound like God at all to me. Sounds like an entity who is the opposite of God, an entity who demands blood and slaughter and suffering and death. So who or what is this “god” of Abraham? Who or what is it that the Jews worshipped for hundreds of years with blood sacrifice?
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“God’s chosen people! God’s chosen people!” We have heard that over and over and over. But who is this god that “gave” Israel to the Jews? What kind of god orders his “chosen” to slaughter every man, woman, child, and even the goats and sheep? Doesn’t sound like God at all to me. Sounds like an entity who is the opposite of God, an entity who demands blood and slaughter and suffering and death. So who or what is this “god” of Abraham? Who or what is it that the Jews worshipped for hundreds of years with blood sacrifice?