Sunday, October 22, 2006

Scary commentary

From a Cross-Currents comment thread discussing differences between Judaism and other religions. One person asks a pretty interesting question-

Someone is bound to ask you how Muslims killing non-believers are different than
Jews killing Canaanites. What do you answer?


Several people offer some thoughtful responses- and then there's this one:

they SAY Allah/G-d told them to do it, which we know is not true, whereas Hashem
actually did tell us to slay the Canaanites. Where’s the comparison?


Yipes. Welcome to comparitive religion, folks, and the many problems it brings.

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