From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Sat 16 Apr 1994 - 13:59:14 EEST
Sandy said:
>Most faiths on Earth proclaim similar acts as "good", from Muslim to
>Judaism
Paul retorts:
>Like when Yahweh orders the Jews to kill all the Canaanites in a
>town, sparing neither the women and children nor the domestic
>animals?
>Or when the Moslems exploded across the world, killing any (apart,
>theoretically, from Peoples of the Book) who would not convert?
Sandy asks:
>Let's not start a pro/anti-religion thread in the Daily, huh?
But then goes on at length:
> In any case, your examples are pitifully bad. When's the last
>time the Jews killed all the population of a town? And though lots of
>guys were killed by the Moslems, they did not kill everyone who
>failed to convert, though non-Moslems had to pay extra taxes.
[Several paragraphs deleted]
> I consider this thread closed unless you can find me an
>example of a large-scale religion that thinks it's good to rob and
>kill on an everyday basis, w/o special permission from God.
Tsk, tsk, Sandy! If you want to stop discussion on a topic, you really should stop talking about it yourself in the same post! If you make comments in an unmoderated discussion group like this people may want to respond to it and should feel free to do so.
I too, was going to mention the specific example of the Aztecs, but was beaten to the punch by Paul Reilly and others. A great historical novel about the Aztecs is the imaginatively named novel AZTEC by Gary Jennings. It describes at the dedication of a new temple how 7,000 human sacrifices were made in one day! Yuk!
P.S. The Koran specifically enjoins its followers NOT to kill (except in a just cause).
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