Violence in OT

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The Christian civilization evaluates the human dignity, the Christian Civilization sees the beauty and value of the human beings. In the Christian civilization under the democratic values , the ruling elites can not easy live under despotism, hypocrisy, and all- permissiveness. There are no 10-12 years old brides, no just rapes, no stoning in Christian world.
But despite the superiority of Christian civilization I would not hurry to admire the idea of a modern crusade.
I personally hard to understand the crusade, or just war, in a modern application.
I think that anyone who has ever visited a Muslim country could not help but notice the piety of society.
The religious zeal which in the Christian world are practicing only by monks and very conservative Evangelical communities, there in muslim world this religious zeal is present on the daily public life level and much more stronger.(we are not discussing now the membership in Christ or following of Christ. I am not talking about it)
You wake in the morning prayer even when you’re sleeping yet, and in the evening when you were already asleep you can wake up by the public prayer-call.
On the streets you see the praying crowds 5 times a day, and women in veils humbly turn away their eyes from you.
Social economy does not allow price increases to prevent damage to the most vulnerable.
It can take a long time to enumerate all the aspects of Muslim society, Of course we are not talking ISIS.
In some places the religion becomes a terror.
Yet I find it hard to interpret the idea of a modern crusade.
To talk about some ‘‘godless barbarians’’ which lighted up the wrath of God do not seem plausible.
I think that should be very careful with attempts to demonize the regions and religions of the planet under the concept of just war, or the concept of righteous wrath of God.
 
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‘‘Historian Steve Weidenkopf offers the first in a series about the most prevalent modern myths about the Crusades and how to refute them.’’
It’s not about the Old Testament, its about Crusades, but is there something identical in understanding the meaning of wars?
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I enjoyed your posts, quite enlightening. Thank you… But a just war and the crusades are not at all necessarily the same things. There simply is a time when war is justifiable-to defend the innocent, to promote and preserve righteousness and oppose its opposite, to bring back peace.
 
Taken as it is presented, we have to set the benchmark of violence with God destroying nearly all mankind in the flood. Without elaboration, because my memory is not that good, it seems that there was justification for eliminating lots of people in the conquering of Canaan by the Israelites, because those people were idolatrous, for starters.
I was waiting for you to say something like, “because they were child rapists”…or something of the sort. But then you said, “because they were idolatrous.” If a man, woman, or child should be killed for idolatry, what should the punishment be for anything else? Surely we should all be slaughtered immediately right where we stand.
 
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