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To: onedoug
Though fitting for cannibals, and various forms of human sacrifice.

Yeah, one of the interesting things about the bible, is that the commands about morality--sexual and otherwise--are directly responsive to the way the Canaanites routinely lived.

So all you have to do is think about what Judeo/Christian morality is (no adultery, no incest, no homosexuality, no bestiality, no idols, no human sacrifices, etc.) and the opposite is exactly the way the Canaanites were...

Baal and Asherah, for example the two most popular Canaanite gods, were full brother and sister...AND husband and wife...

An archeologist I knew had a dig in a Canaanite burial ground...for infants given in human sacrifices... Full of pots with tiny charred bones within. Was used for 400 years and had over 100,000 burials there.

Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.

16 posted on 09/02/2009 6:25:44 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns
Baal and Asherah, for example the two most popular Canaanite gods, were full brother and sister...AND husband and wife...

Too bad their "parents" didn't 'pass them through the fire' as infants....

20 posted on 09/02/2009 10:13:50 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, sitting in the Oval Office, where he ought not...)
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To: AnalogReigns
Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.

The Romans felt the same about the Canaanites Carthaginian cousins, who still retained the child sacrifice for religion.

21 posted on 09/03/2009 1:36:55 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: AnalogReigns
Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.

Gosh. Wonder what God will do to a culture that has killed fifty million or more such innocents to serve its own selfish lusts...

22 posted on 09/03/2009 1:55:07 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can have freedom. You can have socialism. But you can't have both! www.AIPNEWS.com)
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To: AnalogReigns
Definitely a disgusting culture. No one should wonder why God commanded the Hebrews to wipe them out.

And today's Palestinians claim to be descended from that culture.

23 posted on 09/03/2009 2:54:19 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: AnalogReigns

Yes. Islaam is definitely an improvement on burning perfectly good children and leaving their bones in a pot. Why, think what excellent suicide bombers the little dears might have made, and how much they would have saved on pottery.


28 posted on 09/03/2009 1:51:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html, http://sites.google.com/site/thevuzvuz/)
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