The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56348 Message #1537091
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Aug-05 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: How to End Racism
Subject: RE: How to End Racism
"O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us - he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." (Psalm 137)
"Moses was angry with them. What means it, he asked, that you have spared the womenfolk...All the males must be killed, even the children, and all women that have had commerce with men; the young girls and all the women that are still virgin you may keep for yourselves" (Numbers 31)
"Then the Israelites went back and made an end of the city. In that day all the citizens of Hal perished, men and women, to the number of twelve thousand." (Josue 8)
"The Lord gave Israel mastery, so they put all its inhabitants to the sword, sparing none...With the Lord God of Israel for his warrant he left no trace of the folk who dwelt there, but killed every living thing that was to be found betwen Cades-Barne and Gaza. Josue 10.
And there's plenty more where that came from.
But if you take that kind of thing as an indication of what Judaism and Christianity are really about, you'd be distorting the true messaage of those religions.
And so would those Jews and Christians who at various times have done precisely that, and acted in accordance with those kinds of texts (think Srbrenica, think Deir Yassin). In much same way as those Muslims who distort their own religion into a message of hate.