(April 24, 2015 at 8:31 am)Chuck Wrote: "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.
This is the problem Xian's have with the bible. Too many people interpret what they want to, how they want to, for their own convenience so that they can easily explain or justify the horrid actions of their god.
There shouldn't be any wiggle room for loopholes and such. I say, it should be worded to say "There shall be no killing of any people." That way, god would have to include himself and be held accountable. The use of the word "Thou" leaves god free to kill as he pleases and get away with it because "Thou" essentially means the word "You".
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