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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 11 months ago

The Biblical story of the battle of Jericho certainly seems to condone mass murder of civilians if they're of the wrong ethnicity. I'm less familiar with the Quran but I've read many times that it condones killing in certain contexts as well. All Abrahamic religions are rooted in barbarism.

[-] x86x87@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago

What about "thou shall not kill". Also, there is pretty much historical consensus that all of the Jericho story was fucking made up and slotted into the Bible later. If anything, you should research how the Bible as put together - it's 90% bullshit

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Bible is highly inconsistent. If you want a justification for killing people, it's there. If you want a justification for condemning killers, it's there, too. Whether any part of it is historical is irrelevant; what matters is that people believe in it and use it to guide their actions (or at least rationalize them after the fact).

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Abrahamic religions have always been extremist in their nature. If you read history before Christianity you could already see these people were batshit.

[-] x86x87@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago

Bro. All major religions (except Hinduism/buddhism) are basically a rehash of the same shit the originated in the Sumner River Valley in Mesopotamia. They are all batshit insane - christians included - the only difference is the tech level.

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