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(12,712 posts)The Evangelical Theocrats are big on Mosaic Law, though they cherry pick with glee again and again.
The problem with that, though is that it seems that the Ten Commandments in the Pentateuch was not a necessarily Universal set of laws, but may have only applied to the chosen or the followers and that is evidenced by the command by God that they commit a genocide: he directed them to kill all the Canaanite clans who were living in the land (Deut. 7.1-2; 20.16-18). The destruction was to be complete: every man, woman, and child was to be killed. The book of Joshua tells the story of Israels carrying out Gods command in city after city throughout Canaan.
So, a bloody, brutal slaughter that even included innocent children and babies is deplorable, even if they were "sinners", in my book. Thou shalt not kill did not apply in this case.
Now, the New Covenant of New Testament, really does a service by allowing an out for Christians as far as that kind of genocide goes, as well as all of the more barbaric practices endorsed in the Torah, but we can see that the cherry picking and will to power, etc., obscures that and so, you can't count on them not being able to justify such acts. The words of Jesus seem to be optional and therefore these followers may be far more pseudo-Christian then they can even imagine. Convenience and lip-service, of course, is hypocrisy.