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The Growing Threat of Christian Dominionism: How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide of enemies to schoolchildren

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Dark_Falcon9/07/2012 9:51:03 pm PDT

re: #6 Gus

She’s coming to this conclusion based on a literal reading — ironically — of the bible based in Samuel 15:3:

This is found even in the New Testament. So, we equate said group with “strong adherence” to their ethos plus this feature of Samuel 15:3 and we come to the conclusion that Good News Clubs’ is creating future “child zomebie” that will commit genocide on people?

What about the other church organizations that require strong adherence? They too will have to read Samuel 15.3.

The bible isn’t an owners manual. Even the most devout I’ve know are not literalists. There are many awful things in the bible and most people don’t see it as a cause to order.

Highly inconclusive.

Indeed. And its noteworthy that Leviticus sets out terms of peace to be offered to non-Canaanite cities, and even states that fruit trees near a besieged city are not to be cut down. Clearly, the Old Testament did not hold that all wars fought fought by the Hebrews should be genocidal. That makes Stewart’s reasoning highly suspect.