[Vermont Lt]

The biblical model was to slaughter the men and take the women and children as slaves.

If you are going biblical, let’s not kid ourselves about the brutality of war back them.

[daniel1212]

The biblical model was to slaughter the men and take the women and children as slaves.

No, taking women as wives in one con text of conquests of enemies of Israel (and which was to be set free, not sold, if the husband no longer had delight in her: Deuteronomy 21:10-14) is not the Biblical model as regards the place of women in regards to men, except as reflecting the male being the head over the women.

If you are going biblical, let’s not kid ourselves about the brutality of war back them.

Yes, though the nature of man has not changed, and war has been brutal in the last century, while by making it more antiseptic, including by the state executing capital criminals rather than by communal stoning, then we both become more efficient at it (able to destroy the whole world), while being unable to deal with the hardness life can bring.