Sometimes even foolish minds need to be addressed. It is an impulse of all who have a scholarly tradition. Hence my ripostes to you, formerly known as “My Two Copper Coins”
Very much like Krishna in the Gita who disguises himself as a charioteer, you disguise your musings based on text taken out of historical context and cultural authenticity.
You write: “And yet, in spite of over a hundred comments back and forth, you haven’t provided a single sentence explaining the justification for the ritual slaughter in 1 Samuel 15: 2-3. A single one. An illustration of how you justify the mandated violence in your mind.”
How many times have you to be reminded that this is passage was a trumped up excuse to wage war on the Amalekites for events that occurred four centuries before. No one justifies this. To put it bluntly, the literal meaning you provide here is undercut by historicity and what scholars call the cultural manipulation of text to justify aggressive war. To scholars, a passage torn or shorn out of context is worthless for the text that describes it. This is what “internet-learning” does to you.
Indeed, this is what you are precisely doing by attempting to justify as mandates to “honor the codes of war” of Krishna’s command to Arjuna to murder on the battlefield. You are providing a backdrop text to explain a writ for murder.
At least you now acknowledge that the mythical and disguised deity has set forth “codes of war” to be observed at all costs even if this includes the deliberate and calculated slaughter of one’s own kith and kin. Where does one find this deity-mandated codes of war? Just inquiring or should we now examine parallels in the Quran?
Presumptions aside, and your “scholarly tradition” comprising of supporting dubious positions with scatalogical publications from Scribd.com, are you saying that you believe that the Amalekites and their children were not slaughtered / exterminated, as the Old Testament records?
Please reply, specifically.
The rest of your post isn’t even worthy of a retort - It’s the same recycled presumptuous bull-spittle that you’ve been spewing here from the time you started to reply.