NationStates

Ifreann wrote:

Ovisterra wrote:
According to the relevant factbook entry, Harmonism also includes the worship of the Princesses as deities.

Bah, headcanon rejected.

Dimar wrote:I'm a rather secular Buddhist. I follow the teachings and advice of the Buddha but not much more, and I don't believe in a "higher" power, only the power of unity and tolerance, and that the Dalai Lama and the Buddha are only worth more than me because I choose to let them be.

The USOT wrote:

Ashkland wrote:Why? I'm an atheist but I think Judaism and Christianity gave humanity a lot. From morality to culture.

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In judaism we have the advocacy of mass rape as a reward, a totalitarian dictator who punishes knowledge
[..]

We do not advocate Mass Rape...

Menassa wrote:

The USOT wrote:[...]
In judaism we have the advocacy of mass rape as a reward, a totalitarian dictator who punishes knowledge
[..]

Since apparently we're posting in this thread now....
We do not advocate Mass Rape... I hate to assume, but I assume you're talking about a story in Judges?

For the most part Judges is a history book, in which everything is in context with the thing before it... not that: 'You guys won, Rape time!' more about how lawless the land was without a king...

Judges 21:25
In those days Israel had no king. And everyone did as he saw fit.

Yeah.... don't say: 'A religion does this. Because in their history, people did it.'

Then we would have a bunch of wackjobs saying that all the Jews killed Jesus... which never happened....ever.

(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)



They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.



Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves

(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)



As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)



"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."