http://www.iraqoilreport.com/daily-brief/
reports include women slaves burning in cages as read
We likely will never know. But the Taliban must be wondering, too.
What needs to be debunked is the Pakistani line that Afghanistan is the fault of the United States and the international community, and that the killing [of Mansour] blocks the [Afghan-Taliban] peace process. "There is no peace process; Mansour made clear there was no intent to negotiate."
Indeed will Iran in our life time fathom what they follow?
He who believes will not be in haste. Isaiah 28:16
Perhaps the most important point is that God’s angel did not insist on the total destruction of the Canaanites after the war (Judges 2:1-10).
If slaying all the Canaanites was God’s command, the angel would have said so.
He did not, the infection spread and what was said will be mirrored forward as we noted.
Arad Destroyed - When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to
Atharim, he attacked the Israelites. The first war was defensive.
They do not understand it and underestimate the danger. The Bible does not go into details because it does not want to perpetuate evil. God doesn’t want anyone copying the Canaanites. Nevertheless, Leviticus chapters 17 and 18 do give some hints. The Canaanites practised incest, homosexuality, had sex with animals, children, and burned their children as sacrifices all in the name of their gods.
Israel was a new nation just out of Egypt. God was teaching them to be a holy people (Deuteronomy 7:6, 28:9, Leviticus 19:2). They were entering Canaan, a land with religion and culture over 400 years old. Since the Canaanites were not about to change their ways, they would have to be removed.1
God Did Not Order Genocide
Several points concerning the Bible must be remembered.
1.Even historians admit the Bible is unique. It was the first written record with a world view of history.
2.It was the first record that dared criticize its own nation and kings. As far as this author knows, no other ancient record did this.
3.It was written long before the concept of “political correctness” and way before our modern sensibilities. The Bible is brutally frank. It will not hide unpleasant incidents like ethnic cleansing.
God issued two specific commands concerning the Canaanites east of the Jordan River (Deuteronomy 2:26-36, 3:1-11) and several commands concerning Canaanites in general (Exodus 23:28-33, 33:2, 34:11-16, Numbers 33:50-56, Deuteronomy 7:1-5, 9:3, 11:23, 12:2-3, 20:10-18, Joshua 3:10, J13:6, 23:5). The two specific commands were for the conquest of the kingdoms east of the Jordan. Of the general commands, only Deuteronomy 7:1-5 demands the total destruction of the Canaanites. Deuteronomy 20:10-18 qualifies this by specifically mentioning the destruction of Canaanite cities. The others concern driving them out, destroying their idols and not making any treaties with them.
As will be seen later, Israel followed God’s instructions. The two Canaanite kingdoms east of the Jordan were completely destroyed, but the Canaanites on the west were not.
Now it makes no sense to “drive out” the Canaanites and then “kill” them. It makes even less sense to “kill” them and then “drive them out”. The most reasonable reading of these commands is that some of them were to be killed and the rest driven out. chin
King Saul was told by the prophet Samuel to destroy the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15). This is another Bible incident people claim is about genocide. But David also fought the Amalekites not long after (2 Samuel 1:1), and even after David’s battle with them, an Amalekite still appears (2 Samuel 1:8). Genocide? No another pagan fable.
The Mathus view is a preference to some and a idolatry to others who wish not to produce as trade and reality entail.
http://voxfux.com/features/malthusian_t ... theory.htm
Like it was conveyed they took the mental disease to other cultures even in the bronze age semantics.
Automatism can be observed as seven issues to press.