The post that was quoted here has been removedIt appears that Duchess thinks that the German people were under an existential threat from the Jewish people, and that she thinks that Hitler's thinking was thereby a 1:1 with the statement I gave...
Would you like to do a basic review of 20th century history and come to a different conclusion, or would you like toa dmit that there is no basis for this ridiculous accusation?
You made a willfully ignorant statement, distorting the context of everything that I have said, because you think you can score easy debate points by mentioning my name and Hitler in the same sentence, but it seems doubtful that anyone who doesn't already dislike me will find it remotely honest or persuasive.
You should try again.
The troll Sonship cannot grasp the distinction between a recently fertilized egg and a human being.
I think this is the way you sooth your conscience for supporting the extermination of millions of unborn women, by dismissing the women as just recently fertilized eggs.
What strong man are you standing behind who filled your head with that excuse?
What God did to the Midianites was not duplicated in all instances to all future warring people against Israel. It should be considered one of a couple of more severe judgments which was not the norm of their war making.
It is also clear that when Israel itself sinned in the land, God was practically just as harsh against Israel. The Bible speaks of the LAND vomiting out the sinful people. That is as if it didn't matter WHO was committing the crimes. Israel was sorely shown that they could not rely on favoritism from God if they themselves copied the crimes of the Canaanite nations.
Some of you people don't read the Bible, plain and simple.
Imagine Hitler saying that one day the Germans and the Jews would together be called as one - people of God. It would never happen.
But Yahweh surprisingly speaks of Israel and some of her enemies to one day be united and ALL His people.
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians will come into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying,
" Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance. " (Isaiah 19:23-25)
There is no promise of exterminating to extinction the Assyrians or the Egyptians as in genocidal ethnic cleansing.
The nation of Israel did not capitalize on the strongest language in Joshua to ever after duplicate their actions of , say, the Midianites, towards other enemies.
King Saul did not similarly devote the Philistines to destruction. Many peoples surrounded David in his reign. He did not similarly treat them with the devastation visited on the MIdianites.
In the Second Temple period the chief enemies were Assyria, Persia, and Babylon. They did not always exactly follow the pattern used to judge the MIdianites.
In Zechariah in fact the prophet says in humbling the fiercest enemies in the Philistines, instead of total destruction they would be a remnant to partake of Gods covenant.
Then they also will be a remnant for our God, and be like a clan of Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite. (Zech 9:7)
Ekron was a city of the Philistines. Though they were bitter enemies they will be incorporated into the people of God rather than wiped out.
"Like the Jebusites" meant like the Canaanites who were eventually absorbed into the conquering Israel (1 Chron.21:15,18,28).
The MIdianites and the Amalekites were particular fiercest dealings which did not establish a general rule for ALL future conflicts.
To the problem of empathy for women. I want all to imagine for a moment that you were one of those spared Midianite virgins. Here you are a conquered people assimilating into the Israelite society. And among their laws you hear this:
You shall not distort justice due a sojourner or an orphan, nor shall you take a widow's garment as a pledge.
But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Jehovah your God ransomed you from there, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. (Deut. 24:17,18)
Might you not have hope that you were among a just and merciful people? How do you think they thought it compared to remembering the screams of children being offered up in fire to the Canaanite idols as their priests drowned out the screams with drum beats?