[Vision2020] Bush knows the Bible
Robert Dickow
dickow at uidaho.edu
Fri Feb 23 21:26:14 PST 2007
Let us not forget that all those horrendous 'smitings' noted in the Bible
were at the command of the 'Old God.' God underwent a self-reappraisal of
sorts many years ago (well, under 10,000 years ago to be sure), and then
became a kinder, gentler God, a more personal God. Things have changed. God
would never insist now that anybody go around smiting other peoples, no
matter how icky those peoples may appear.
Bob Dickow, troublemaker
-----Original Message-----
Subject: [Vision2020] Bush knows the Bible (Ralph Nielsen)
An e-mail acquaintance in Alabama had this letter published in a
Birmingham newspaper.
Ralph
Feb. 19, 2007
Bush knows the Bible
<snip>...
The Bible is abundantly clear in its support for pre-emptive war,
provided you think God told you to do it. At God's insistence, Israel
massacred the inhabitants of Hormah and Bashan (Numbers 21), smote
the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15), everyone in Heshbon (Deuteronomy 2 and
3), the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites (Deuteronomy 7:1-2 and 20:16) and almost every
person living in Jericho (Joshua 6),...<snip><many smitings snipped<snip>...
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