[Nix 2]

G-d has all the power over life and death, and there is a difference between killing and murder which is the whole difference between absolute and moral relativism. You would be questioning the Lord, not the man who followed His orders.
My perception of this article was more along the line of abortion, pedophilia, rape, wanton murder, war for the sake of war without reason or cause.
Just because you read a passage and pull it totally out of context without having studied the history or knowing the circumstances is pretty lame.
As a matter of fact, Jericho was already a destroyed city when Joshua arrived there. No one lived there. It had already been the victim of a devastating earthquake and fire. It is a *hero* story to give Joshua status. The truth is that the Israelites never attacked anyone who didn't attack them first because they asked to pass through lands and were feared because of their strangeness to the territory.
How on earth did you manage to turn a thread about morality into a Jew bashing thread before it even got started? It ain't about Jews. It's about leftist moral relativism. Get it?

[steve-b]

The truth is that the Israelites never attacked anyone who didn't attack them first because they asked to pass through lands and were feared because of their strangeness to the territory.

If some armed band "asked" to pass through my territory, I'd tell them to get lost. If they tried to pass through anyway, I'd do my best to kill them until the survivors took the hint.

[ShadowAce]

The truth is that the Israelites never attacked anyone who didn't attack them first because they asked to pass through lands and were feared because of their strangeness to the territory.

As a Christain, I would have to say that statement is not correct. Read the OT again.

[demosthenes the elder]

Not Jew-bashing, dolt.
Biblical-literalist-bashing, which is both vastly more fun and infinitely more just.