I almost walked out of my RCIA (Catholic Convert class) when the lay teacher said that the Jews didn't find an empty country when they went up into the Promised land, they conquered the people that lived there already because they thought that's what God wanted them to do. And that maybe these Muslims think that what God wants them to do is to go into a mall with a bomb strapped on and blow themselves up.
Believe me, I'm going through this class because I want to be Catholic, but I know what I'm talking about, I know my Torah, and I know Catholic Doctrine, and we understand that the Jews were reluctant to invade the Promised Land and kill the inhabitants, and because of that they got to wander in the desert for forty years.
I wish I had had the courage to stand up and say "Balderdash" and walk out. Not on the church, but on that lady.
Are you saying that Joshua and his people DID find an empty country in the promised land? If you think that's true - - and that your instructor was wrong -- then you are an example of Catholic biblical illiteracy.