Showing posts with label honor killing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honor killing. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

God promising to be drunk with blood

"I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."

Author: Deuteronomy 32 Verses #: 42

In this chapter Moses is supposedly speaking for god.  The reader of the chapter is supposed to believe that all the words are the words of Yahweh.  God is explaining how he is going to kill people who are not hebrew and follow the God of Moses and the Israelites.  It becomes abundantly obvious the the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" does not apply outside the tribe. The old testament is filled with page after page of violent warfare against other tribes and "foreign" people.

 Under levitical law killing is encouraged for any acts outside levitical law.  The killing children for dishonoring parents is one example.  Everyone in the tribe of Moses was to be deathly afraid of breaking the very strict rules that governed all of life.  Violent death was the penalty exacted by the priests and the patriarch for behavior that did not conform to their levitical law.  Moses created a theocracy that was completely totalitarian in scope.

""Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death."


Author: Exodus 21 Verses #: 17

Monday, July 19, 2010

Jesus advocating putting children to death for speaking evil of father or mother

"For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'{Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9}"


Author: Mark 7 Verses #: 10

Jesus is agreeing with Moses in Mark 7 and disagreeing with the religious leaders who had a softer take on these scriptures.  I think it goes without saying that society would charge any parent with murder for killing their own children and that society has come to view calling your mother or father "evil" with leniency and tolerance not a death sentence.  A large number of people in america actually have/had evil parents who either neglected them or abused them or raped them.  The burden here is on the child to honor and not speak evil of their parents.  Jesus definitely cannot be accused of being a child psychologist here.  Where is the Jesus who says..."Suffer the little children come to me for such is the kingdom of heaven"?  I am confused.