FFC wrote:Wow. I never read that in the bible, Victor.
From King James bible:
Joshua 6:20,21
[20] So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
[21] And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Way to go! I guess they did not rape no one here, they just butchered all.
Deuteronomy 2: 33-35
33 "And the LORD our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
34 And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining;
35 only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured."
Ok guys, kill everyone but keep the cattle!
Now it gets better.
Deuteronomy 20: 10-17
10 "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.
11 And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.
Wow! for an investment that's a sure one!
12 But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.
13 And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword,
14 but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you."
That's a deal! the women and the little ones you shall take as booty for yourselves. Rape? Sorry, it does not say so...
Numbers 31:14-18
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Not to bad as an order, isn't it? If theres a spiritual sense to this, maybe I missed it!
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Yes, I am mistaken here, keep alive for yourselves has nothing to do with rape! Why then keep the woman children and virgins alive? Surely to make cookies and bread.
Victor Daniel - who sometimes consider the Bible as a violent, repulsive, selfish and bloody book. BUTT!!! Maybe those periods are to explain everything that does happen in a war. Like the Croatian war in around 1994 I think. Raped of thousands and thousands of youg girs and women.