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To: Chemist_Geek

"BTW, how do you explain this?
Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

Leviticus 26:8

Sounds just like the Koranic verses the Islamophobes like to post to "prove" that Islam is an evil juggernaut out to destroy everyone else..."

Umm...no?

That verse sounds like it is saying that the people doing the chasing are after their enemies, who have probably attacked them. It does NOT tell the reader to kill all non-Jews or Non-Christians. The enemies this passage has talked about are probably enemies in a war. On the other hand, the Quran exhorts the Muslims to kill infidels indiscriminately and ambush them.


900 posted on 01/05/2005 2:03:16 PM PST by Nesher ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum!")
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To: Nesher
That verse sounds like it is saying that the people doing the chasing are after their enemies, who have probably attacked them

Let's see, right before that one...

Leviticus 26:8-- "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword."

Yes, it's enemies, being chased. No mention prior to that of "enemies who have attacked you" or the like. Several places, God commands unprovoked attacks, if I'm not mistaken.

These are the Lord's words to Moses in mount Sinai. It's not out of context.

907 posted on 01/05/2005 2:38:13 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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