It’s difficult to understand how a Christian can condone theft, violence and murder in the name of God. We rightfully point out how evil it is when Islam does it. We should have the courage to condemn it when it is done by Jews as well.
God can do His will without relying on armies killing children in His name.
What kind of Christian doubts that?
“What kind of Christian doubts that?”
Oh, the kind that reads the Old Testament.
Though God *can* do His will without relying on armies killing children in His name, He has quite often chosen to do things in just that way.
Pacifism is not a tenet of Christianity.
Onward Christian soldiers.
At one point, God told them to kill every man, woman and child when they took an area because He, in His Divine foreknowledge, knew what would happen by the hand of those people many years later.
The Israelites must have had some hand-wringing leftist types even back then and now today the descendants of those not wiped out are doing their darndest to remove the Jewish people from the face of the earth.
If they had done it right the first time they/we wouldn’t be having a lot of the mideast problems we are having today.
Imagine you're some Palestinian guy and you are informed that your family's falafel patch is actually owned by a bunch of Ukrainian Jews who have never even seen the Holy Land before.