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by istjohn 615 days ago
> And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

> Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women...

Ezekial 9:5-6

> Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:3

> And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:23

Two and a half thousand years later, human nature is unchanged. How easily we make peace with wholesale slaughter.

1 comments

All those examples are from a single ancient culture. Why did you pick only from that culture?
They are quotes from the most important text of our Western culture, the sacred scripture of the world's largest religion.
And similar things are still going on today
Texts that idiots humans take at face value are no more useful then stories of Santa Claus.