Hi,
Praying to the Christian God to win a war when The Sixth Commandment is "Though shall not kill" is something quite different.
Actually, (1) there are no "ten commandments". There's quite a few "laws" and those ten are just the ones the Christians found convenient to keep. And (2) it's "thou shalt not murder" -- but the people translating the King James version weren't terribly good linguists. "Thous shalt not kill" would be a very hypocritical thing for a deity that assigned death penalties for witches, for adulterers, etc. Not to mention demanding the slaughter of whole towns (including the animals) when the Israelites invaded Canaan.
--Pete
Praying to the Christian God to win a war when The Sixth Commandment is "Though shall not kill" is something quite different.
Actually, (1) there are no "ten commandments". There's quite a few "laws" and those ten are just the ones the Christians found convenient to keep. And (2) it's "thou shalt not murder" -- but the people translating the King James version weren't terribly good linguists. "Thous shalt not kill" would be a very hypocritical thing for a deity that assigned death penalties for witches, for adulterers, etc. Not to mention demanding the slaughter of whole towns (including the animals) when the Israelites invaded Canaan.
--Pete
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