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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
So, today, the only wandering, conquesting, tribal nomads who are still beheading and beating women are not the Hebrews. Why is that?
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Not sure who you mean by "Hebrews" (The modern ones? There aren't any Hebrew tribes anymore, and Israel is so secular today that 50% of them don't even observe the Sabbath.)
But IMO, the answer is "secularization," thanks largely to the Romans, and the Jewish diaspora of 70 AD. (Merely 70 or 72 years before that, a group of Jews were supposedly ready to stone a certain woman taken in adultery, and asked Jesus how to handle it. So maybe that's a benchmark of sorts concerning stoning.) Anyhow, Jews got spread across three continents, and were cross pollinated by different cultural forces. By the time of Israel's nationhood in 1948, the religious nature of many Jews had changed, at least they were no longer very high on the scale of "OT literalism."
But some or many muslims today simply BELIEVE what their book tells them to do, approximately as deeply as many fundamentalist Christians also believe--if god said it, it's correct, and that's why you all defend the baby killer OT hero, Joshua. Or, just 600 or 1000 years ago, BELIEF had equally violent manifestations from the Christians-du-jour, the Catholics. And later on with Protestant leaders, whenever they could get the upper hand. Oops, and Nigerian Pentecostals who still kill "witches" today. Aside from that.....Amen, down with muslim terrorists.
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