I was reading the bible lately, looking to inspire myself about God's great love but hit a stubbling block.
It was a random passage about Joshua receiving word from God to 'utterly destroy' a nation. Men, Women, Children the whole damn lot. Try to imagine babies and children having their throats cut and tossed from the city walls. My heart sunk.
Something that troubles me is, looking at it humanistically, one man has a vision, claims authourity from God, proposes an ideal nation and then procedes to commit genocide of an otherwise ignorant people.
I have no doubts in God and am a Christian but this trend is familiar for the greatest tyrants commiting the greatest atrocities in history and responsible for the 'crusades' not to mention the war threats today.
Can we really accept this as a righteous man following God's will or is it a corrupt government using the religious beliefs of a people to achieve its own Glory?
2006-12-11
20:47:02
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