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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
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Subject: Mike Stalnaker's ignorance flames up.
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 17:05:45 EDT
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Mike:

You ask about the 'Genoside' of the Jews in the taking of the land given
them by God and then say 'don't give me any of that It was the will of the
Lord stuff, what ever happened to Thou shalt not kill?'

Look, if 'Thou shalt not kill' is to be obeyed because it is from the Lord
then the command to kill the people in the land is also something to be
obeyed.  The concept of Justice, as Hume so aptly pointed out demands 
a God who is big enough (absolute) to demand it and to carry it out.  Indeed
it demands an afterlife since 'Justice' is not done competely in the good
old here and now.

The point of the events recorded is that the people of the land God told them
to kill deserved it IN GOD'S OPINION.  He sent the Jews to carry out his
sentence - all perfectly 'legal' and moral if God is really God and there
IS Justice.  Therefore it was NOT genocide.  (Yea, I spelled it right this
time)  I'll wager you refuse to see the difference between someone 'killing'
on his own and doing so as an agent of God.  Don't bother to bring up the
nonsense that some people have claimed to be doing the 'will of God' by
killing.  I agree with you.  Except in the rare case of self defense and
this case recorded in the bible.

Some people insist on being ignorant.  Do you?

The REASON man is not to kill is EXACTLY BECAUSE he doesn't know if the 
person deserves it because that is a perogitive of a Just God.

Comments?

Regards,

Ken Arndt