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Background Pony #34E8
@Albus Fahrenheits  
Doesn’t matter if it’s a group of them or not, their babies obviously still weren’t the ones that killed the Israelites’ babies.
 
Yes, revenge was the contextual reason for wanting it to happen, but it’s not a defense that makes the morality any better.
Background Pony #34E8
@Albus Fahrenheits  
No, it doesn’t make it fair, because the babies didn’t do anything. If someone cut off your finger and you cut off their’s, it’d be punishing the person who committed the crime, killing someone’s babies isn’t punishing the right person.
Background Pony #34E8
@Shirani  
Wait, how does that make it any better? Regardless of it being a lamentation, he’s still wishing that innocent babies will be killed as an act of revenge for something that happened to Israel.
Monfang

@Monfang  
For those of you who didn’t understand what I wrote, this is the gist of it.
 
“You really screwed us over! I hope someone comes along and does to you what you did to us!”
RadioDemon
Duck - User has been known to often resemble a waterfowl
Wallet After Summer Sale -

So many orphans~Alastor
@Monfang  
that’s correct. A lot of nations back then said a bunch trash talk to intimidate other nations. Other nations of the time did the exact same thing.
Monfang

Psalms 137:
 
By the rivers of Babylon,  
There we sat down, yea, we wept  
When we remembered Zion.  
2 We hung our harps  
Upon the willows in the midst of it.  
3 For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,  
And those who plundered us requested mirth,  
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”  
4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song  
In a foreign land?  
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,  
Let my right hand forget its skill!  
6 If I do not remember you,  
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—  
If I do not exalt Jerusalem  
Above my chief joy.  
7 Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom  
The day of Jerusalem,  
Who said, “Raze it, raze it,  
To its very foundation!”  
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed,  
Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!  
9 Happy the one who takes and dashes  
Your little ones against the rock!
RadioDemon
Duck - User has been known to often resemble a waterfowl
Wallet After Summer Sale -

So many orphans~Alastor
@Background Pony #1AF4  
no genocide back then wouldn’t have been possible even if they had tried. Most likely they would have decimated the population of other tribes so they would not be a threat. As for genocide in the bible most of what you hear is just basic macho talk that will get other nations talking. Take for instance the land of canaan which heard about the decimation of the Amalekites and the rumored decimation of Egypt which at the time was the superpower of the known world. Now they hear about the cause coming to canaan to claim a home for their people. What do you think sane people are going to do in those times? They will flee to other nations. Only the hardline fanatically religious people will stay. It is assumed only about 5-10% actually stayed in canaan when they heard about Israel coming.  
Also even though God said to destroy the canaanites He also said to drive them from the land which would have done the same thing. He also said that if Israel disobeyed Him that he would drive them out the same way that they drove the canaanites out. They certainly didn’t exterminate them.  
And no Genocide isn’t justified in any context. They wouldn’t have had the means anyway to cause genocide.
Background Pony #0F89
@Shirani  
Are you implying that genocide is justified in any context for any reason? Not taking a religious angle here, I’m just curious about what you’ll say since you seem knowledgeable about historical context.
Bryce
Artist -

Context is important to the interpretation of ancient documents.
 
I’m not sure if this is pure trolling or just a really weak anti-theist statement, in which case OP is proving that fundamentalists do not have a monopoly on stupid argumentation.
Zincy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

In Vino Veritas
@Shirani
 
Well, in a sense yes, but not equally distributed. Common interest was probably the largest binding force.
 
At any rate, all of you take your little debate to the general thread, or make a new thread.
 
That way others can weigh in on it.