THE LORD GODS EXTERMINATORS Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! -- Dalek battle cry DEUTERONOMY 2:30-35 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done. The Lord said to me, See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land. When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors. But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. We know from the fact of the divine omnipotence of the Lord God that the heart of the king of Heshbon could have been made soft instead, allowing the Hebrews to pass through peacefully. However, by the divine wisdom of the Lord God, the heart of the king of Heshbon was hardened so that the Hebrew people could enjoy the singular pleasure of exterminating every last man, woman, and child of that place, just as the Lord God hardened the heart of the pharaoh in Egypt in order to enjoy the singular pleasure of wiping out the entire army of the pharaoh, along with all of the glorious and wonderful forms of pestilence suffered by the people of Egypt. Clearly, the Lord God found great pleasure in such acts, being that further genocide was immediately commanded, as related in the next passage. DEUTERONOMY 3:1-4 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. The Lord said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan. Much as we are ecstatic when an exterminator wipes out an infestation of cockroaches, the Lord Gods exterminators are highly treasured. DEUTERONOMY 7:1-6 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. And Jericho... JOSHUA 6:20-21 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. In the next passage, we get clear affirmation from the Lord God clearly approving the wonderful institution of slavery. The choice is simple: surrender to slavery, or be exterminated. Here, we can see a clear historical precedent for the Daleks. In the words of Shriekback, Shout, push, Hammerheads! Bold and resolute! DEUTERONOMY 20:10-15 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God. Remember that genocide is a commandment stemming directly from the Lord God to be followed whenever anyone living on the Hebrew inheritance has the perfidious audacity to refuse to submit to slavery to the Hebrew people. Now, in 2014, we can apply this directly to those perverse and incalcitrant Palestinians living in Gaza. The following passage relates Joshuas pious obedience to the commandment for genocide. JOSHUA 11:10-14 At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself. Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned. The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. Saul was likewise commanded by the Lord God to commit genocide. 1 SAMUEL 15:1-8 Samuel said to Saul, I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah. Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine. Then he said to the Kenites, Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites. Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt. He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. The next portion of the same chapter relates how incredibly important and holy genocide is to the Lord God. 1 SAMUEL 15:9-11 But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions. Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night. Notice that the Lord God regrets making Saul king specifically for the fact that Saul failed to complete the commanded genocide in sparing Agag. This failure to fully commit to the wisdom and love of the Lord God leads to the downfall of Saul, the first Hebrew king. Being that the land known today as Israel is rightfully the inheritance of the Hebrew people as granted by the love of the Lord God, we can easily infer that the ongoing genocide being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people is absolutely righteous and just, as any act commanded by the Lord God necessarily must be. Seriously, Fozzie Shuss 2014/05/08
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 05:11:54 +0000
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