RE: "Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?
April 24, 2015 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2015 at 8:33 am by Anomalocaris.)
"Thou shall not kill" of the Old Testament is short hand for "thou shall not kill those Israelites whom the Jewish priestly and ruling class would find inconvenient to lose".
Anyone who do not fall in that definition can be killed so long as you can get away with it.
Remember the Ten Commandments comes from a petty local cult whose main purpose for existence was to inflate the egos of a petty local tribe and more securely ensconce a priestly and ruling class within that tribe. It doesn't really consider anyone not of the tribe as potential addressees.
Anyone who do not fall in that definition can be killed so long as you can get away with it.
Remember the Ten Commandments comes from a petty local cult whose main purpose for existence was to inflate the egos of a petty local tribe and more securely ensconce a priestly and ruling class within that tribe. It doesn't really consider anyone not of the tribe as potential addressees.
