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Are there any books other than the bible and Mein Kampf that seek to justify genocide?

Update:

Deuteronomy 7

Update 2:

@Andrey

"It is the inexorable Jew who struggles for his domination over the nations. No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword. Such a process is and remains a bloody one."

Vol 2, Ch 14

Update 3:

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.

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  • 8 years ago
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    What part of the Bible justifies genocide? Please provide the chapter and verse.

    Thanks, Deuteronomy 7 does appear to justify genocide.

    The Qur'an does have some verses about fighting and killing Jews, but please note the early Muslims were fighting a war against the Arab pagans and Jews at the time. It was definitely a "kill or be killed" situation. Arab pagans and Jews who converted to Islam were actually spared. Unfortunately, some fanatics take these passages out of their historical context.

    I admit that I don't know very much about the historical context of Deuteronomy 7; I'm just saying I could see why someone might say it "justifies genocide." It lists various tribes or nations of people and says "kill them." That sure seems to fit the definition of genocide whether you like it or not.

    Source(s): I read the Qur'an and studied Islam a bit out of personal interest.
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The Bible wins arms down. The Indian mystic Osho as quickly as defined Hitler as an 'stepped forward imbecile'. He became in music with the misery of a rustic that had in simple terms lost a war - and knew a thank you to direct it. He could have been a efficient orator, yet he became a awful author. think of a foul tempered inebriated slumped on the side of the line and throwing insults at everybody. particularly of being ignored, he became idolised via lots of the worst criminals alive. - so then he wrote Mein kampf. The Bible is an anthology. there are a number of exciting mythological memories. all people who argues approximately whether or no longer they're actually authentic has neglected the factor. there is an element of the historic previous of a barbarian tribe: genocide, human sacrifice, enemies taken into slavery. Bloody and terrible. there's various of religious poetry. the common is variable - as are the ideals of the unknown poets. there is music praising the joys of sexual love. There are countless money owed of a guy who tried to cajole people to be astounding to a minimum of one yet another. (The memories could have been edited later via the leaders of the Roman empire, so the refferences to Hell are somewhat suspect.) There are letters written via a moralist who needs women people to be quiet in church. women people could desire to have long hair, adult males could desire to have short hair. there's a protracted rambling essay via somebody who has taken some undesirable acid and had a nightmare. properly that my handle it. the stable bits are well worth examining - the nasty bits are actually not extremely as terrible as Hitler.

  • 8 years ago

    Some people call "The Turner Diaries" a bible for anarchists

    Vast numbers of Americans would resist your calling the Hebrew Bible and Christian Greek and Latin scriptures a pro-genocidal "book"

    Source(s): Mein Kampf is an apology for Hitler -- he is in the ash-bin of history
  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Every book can, depending on your crazy ruler, atheist or believer.

    For example, your Constitution.

    What about Charles Darwin's "Species Origin" (or wetni).

    Philosophy's Superstar Nietzche, those his work ring a bell?

    Well, maybe not Mahatma Ghandi's thoughts, but who knows?

  • 8 years ago

    Yeah, the Patriot Act and the Military Comissions Act.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    That's not fair, Mein Kampf dosn't seek to justify genocide

  • 8 years ago

    Sorry, but you have a sick mentality if you think the Bible approves genocide!

    You don't understand what's going on in the Bible, so you blindly accept what OTHER atheist God-haters say (who also don't bother trying to understand).

    If you DO believe this, then you also believe that Law is bad, that chaos is good, that law enforcement is evil, and that judgment and prison is also bad.

    God is the Judge. He judges righteously, and when the entire population became extremely wicked (more than you can even imagine!), it grieved Him, and He decided to start fresh with one family. He was not exactly "tickled" over His decision, but He is righteous and holy, and does what He must, even when the choice is virtually impossible to make!

    God said He does NOT take delight in the death of the wicked. He said He doesn't want ANY to perish, but that ALL would turn to Him and repent!

    Take this into account when you are so quick to mock! And the only reason I can think of that you would want to mock God is because (as I have indicated in the past), that you are a God-hater, because He condemns your sinful lifestyle, and even though you OBVIOUSLY know the consequences of such actions (since YOU are the one referring to "genocide" - judgment - from the Bible), yet knowing the judgment of God, you would rather hold on to your wicked ways than to repent! God exposes your sins because He is Truth and Light, and Truth and Light will always expose evil, so you hate God! Jesus said it like this when He said that people reject God because they are evil, and they love their sins and immorality, and hate Truth (Jesus said "I am Truth").

    So, before you are so quick to condemn what God did, you better take a second look at the condition of your OWN heart and see all the vile wickedness there.

    (Before you say anything about my words, understand that I speak from personal experience of sin and hating God; so when I judge you, I judge myself also. But I have turned to Jesus to receive an undeserved and unmerited pardon by His grace, mercy, love and forgiveness. You should too. And no, I don't want your money, and I don't want to control you. I just want you to experience the same kind of forgiveness, love, joy and peace I have experienced from God.)

    (Edit: I thought you were talking about Noah. You added the extra comment while I was typing my answer. But the destruction of the Amelekites was justified. They were murdering the stragglers of Israel as they were traveling through the wilderness. They would kill the elderly who lagged behind, and literally cut open pregnant women, tear out their babies, and let both mother and child die in the relentless heat of the desert sun! And if you think judgment against them is wrong, then you must also think that murdering women and their babies is acceptable! What does that say about YOU?)

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  • The Quran.

  • 8 years ago

    Yes, in the Bible God commands the Amalekites to be massacred to death in what we would surely call a genocide.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I don't get why you idiots think that spiritual purification is wrong. In God's eyes, spiritual purification of a population is permissible. That we've come to think of it as "genocide" is a clear indication of how far we've fallen from the Will of God. Regardless of what the bible says, genocide is in the human blood. It is core to human will. Nearly all healthy humans desire homogeneity of views, values, and genetics.

    Yes, I do firmly believe that heretics should be stoned to death.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Qur'an. And the "Left Behind" series.

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