[rwfromkansas]

I did not realize we can pick and choose what parts of Scripture have lessons for us.

[Conservative til I die]

I did not realize we can pick and choose what parts of Scripture have lessons for us.

It depends on what lessons you are choosing to learn. Taking the historical chronicles of God telling the Israelites to fight HIS enemies in the 20th century BC should not be taken as some blanket command for Americans to destroy any enemy it sees fit to destroy. Like I said earlier, America is not ancient Israel, this isn't the Old Testament era, and Pat Robertson is not God commanding us.