A. The Canaanites were not Arabs, and the Arabs are primarily descended from related peoples, not Canaanites. But then the Jews themselves are closely related genetically and linguistically to both the Canaanites and the Arabs. With the exception of the Jews, and possibly the Chinese and Japanese, it is pretty much meaningless to talk about continuity of a single “people” from 3000 years ago to today, except of course in a geographical sense. There were no English people then, not to mention of course no Americans. The Moabites are gone, as are the Amalekites and the Midianites. The Egyptians are the same people only in a geographical sense, as are the Greeks.
B. My point was simply that the command God gave the Jews in the Torah was pretty much exactly the same command Hitler gave the SS. Kill ‘em all. You may believe, quite possibly rightly, that God was in the right to do so while Hitler was wrong. But you quite simply cannot show that they were not doing the same thing. This makes it impossible for you to say Hitler was doing something that was inherently wrong, as you say genocide ISN’T always wrong, being ok to do if God has told you to.
C.Per your claim that God hates those who kill their babies and oppress the poor, and that this therefore justifies the genocide of the Canaanites. How does it help those babies or those poor Canaanites (the ones being oppressed) to have another people come in and kill them all? If that was really the issue, why not rescue the oppressed instead of killing them?
FWIW, I’ve read the entire Bible through perhaps half a dozen times, besides decades of additional study.
A Islam uses the same religious symbol as the Canaanites, and Islam is a bastardized religion made up of Arab customs, Gods, Judaism and Christianity. Some how, the symbol and customs of the Canaanites ended up being the symbol and customs of the “modern” Muslim.
B You missed the point exactly as I put forth in my example, so I appreciate the support. All killing is not the same, the commandment says do not murder, not do not kill. Perhaps I should try stating it a bit different, it makes a big difference who you are killing, innocents, or Nazi’s are not the same. Morality is based on fine points such as these.
C Perhaps we should rescue Jeffery Dhalmer from indigestion? You show an amazing prediection to choose evil to “rescue” over good. Face with World War II would you be a Nazi and save the world for the betterment of the human race, or would you be and American and save the world for the freedom of the human race?
Can you tell the difference? Or has situation ethics so rotted your foundation that your boat floats?