From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Subject: Re: Scriptural Food for Thought
Organization: LLNL
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:42:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.200907.965@tss.com> burke@tss.com (Jim Burke) writes:
>In article <adams.712426668@spssig>, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
>|> kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star) writes:
>
>|> So, at least in this case, God DEMANDS miscarrieag (euphamism for abortion!)
>|> of a child conceived in adultery, if charges are brought against the woman.

>This should not be surprising to people knowledgable about the Bible.
>Elsewhere in Numbers (I believe ch. 30 or 31, I don't have a Bible with
>me) God directs Moses to order the infanticide (and genocide) of the
>people the Israelites had just conquered.  They were to take all their
>possessions and keep them, and also keep all the females that were
>virgins.  All other females and males, including boy babies, were to be
>slaughtered.  This was demanded by God.  It is really a shocking chapter
>of the Bible and well worth reading.

	Here is more, from my Biblical Satanic Verses:

Genocide -- After concluding that most of humanity is wicked beyond
redemption (isn't he capable of reforming anyone?) God decides to
slaughter all but 8 of humanity in Noah's Flood. Also, (Deuteronomy
7:12), we learn that the Promised Land is for the Israelites, and not
for the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, or the Jebusites; these peoples are to be
exterminated without mercy. The Israelites proceed to do just that
(according to their own account); they kill (Numbers 21:25,
Deuteronomy 2:34) the Amorites of Heshbon, (Numbers 21:34,35) the
followers of Og, (Joshua 6) practically all the people of Jericho,
(Joshua 10:28-40) all the people of Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Gezer,
Eglon, Hebron, and the surrounding landscape, (Judges 1:18-19) the
people of Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, (Judges 3:29) 10,000 Moabites,
(Judges 1:4) 10,000 Perizzites and Canaanites, (Judges 4:16) "all the
hosts of Sisera", (Judges 8:10) 120,000 Midianites, (1 Samuel
14:12,13,20) the Philistines, (1 Samuel 11:11) the Ammonites, (1
Samuel 15:3,7) the Amalekites, etc. etc. etc. About this last, we are
told that Samuel found fault with King Saul because he did not try to
kill all the sheep and cattle; killing all the people evidently was
not enough. There is an interesting exception, we find (Numbers
25:16,17, 31:7,8) that the Israelites were supposed to kill all the
men and married women of the Midianites; the unmarried women who have
not gone to bed with any man the Israelites can keep for themselves.
Such is the "Final Solution of the Canaanite Question". The only
justification other than "the land is for us, not for them" that is
ever presented is given in Leviticus (which describes none of these
great victories), where we are told that they practiced homosexual
acts and other wicked things -- right after where it states that male
homosexual acts should be punished by death to all participants. Not
only Canaanites were to suffer, consider (Psalm 137) a lamentation of
being exiled to Babylon, where we learn that "Babylon will be
destroyed.  Happy is the one who pays you back, who takes your babies
and smashes them against a rock." That this activity is contrary to a
certain one of the "Ten Commandments" nobody seems to notice.

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