chapotraphouse

Oppressors have been using the ‘Amalek’ excuse for nearly one millennium. Functionally it is more or less identical to the excuse that Jews or even Muslims are the descendants of J.C.’s tormentors and therefore violence against them is justified.

If you think that the Bible is telling you to massacre unarmed people, it isn’t a G-d problem. It’s a you problem. There is no good reason to believe that Palestinians descend from Amalek (assuming that he was real, which I doubt), and Judaists are not required to believe that they had to embark on an extermination campaign aimed at him anyway.

Now, let there by no illusions: cleaning out toxic theology never undoes all of the damage that it justified, nor does it always make all of the victims feel better (and not solely because some reinterpretations are based on wishful thinking either), but the point here is that we must never let our oppressors distractingly fool us into thinking that theology is the cause of oppression. Such toxic theology is not going to prevent Jews of conscience from donating or offering anything else that they have to their Palestinian siblings.

I hate these rabid ethnonationalist quasi-zealots but I hate the Western liberal "democracies" and their institutions who enable them in the first place so, so much more. They will parrot their utopic aspiration of a law-abiding community of secular democratic states prizing the value of individual rights above "the nation" only to then read shit like "The Bible offers three modalities for a religiously mandated war" and entertain it. Blood-and-soil "nation-building" ramblings with religious justification were bad when the Serbs were the ones spewing them but are perfectly valid for the only democracy in the middle east.

Written by people that didn't know where the sun went at night. Excellent reference material if you want to die from measles.

Amalek? The people that lived in modern day levant? I thought all Palestinians came from yemen! Israhell cant even do propaganda anymore.

Using the bible to justify atrocities How could someone use the words of an all loving, perfect god to justify evil?

I mean he did literally use genocide as the middle example

Which one was this?

The zealot lady?

The one who loves beer?

The one bush put in that's supposed to be a moderate?

Squee? Topher?

The one who's taking all the bribes from the Nazi memorabilia "collector"?

Or did you mean like the supreme Court of Israel? Cause then there's the two you could choose from and my original questions remain.