"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> So I take that to mean your answer is "Yes, God told Moses to commit 
> genocide, and it was good."
>
>> God never told anyone to rape - your imagination is running away with 
>> you.
>
> Numbers 31:18 - Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept 
> with a man.  Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep 
> them for yourselves.
>
> Duteronomy 20:10 or so - When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill 
> every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, 
> children, livestock, and other plunder.  You may enjoy the spoils of your 
> enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
>
> Exodus 21:7 - When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be 
> freed at the end of six years as the men are.
>
> Zecharaih 14 -  Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be 
> divided in your midst.  And I will gather all the nations against 
> Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women 
> ravished;
>

I do not see the term rape here. Ravished could be interpreted as rape but 
that was Zechariah prophesying what would happen to Jerusalem: Jerusalems 
women would be ravished, not "Jerusalems men would ravish 'women from other 
cities"

>>>>> And this is not evil? To drag off two thirds of the human population 
>>>>> and burn them forever? Damn, I must have missed my bit of original 
>>>>> sin.
>>>>>
>>>> Would you let someone live in your house that you know has bad 
>>>> intentions toward you?
>>> If I was omnipotent and all-loving, sure.
I agree.

>>Why not?  Why wouldn't you,

God doesn't want to force anyone. They have to make the choice for 
themselves.

>>> other than fear?  Are you saying God doesn't *like* people who don't 
>>> worship him?
>>>
>> God doesn't want anyone to perish, he has an open invitation to everyone.
>
> Yet only under his terms. Doesn't sound too generous. You're changing your 
> story again, btw.
>
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-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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