I do not understand Christians (and I guess this applies to some related religions too but I am thinking more of Christians here). They have all sorts of rules to live their lives by, but there is a “Big Ten” set. One of which is “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. Yet they will quite happily run around killing people (we’ll skip killing other things including animals for now … it is possible that the original words should be translated as ‘thou shalt not kill people’ or something).<\/p>\n
Well, perhaps not happily except for the deranged, and this little piece is not about them. But given sufficient incentive … like ‘go out and kill these soldiers or we’ll put you up against a wall and kill you’. Now do not get me wrong, this is not a criticism of soldiers who have a job to do. Do not forget that I am not a Christian and I believe it is sometimes necessary to kill (preferably when sanctioned by society).<\/p>\n
But Christians seem to behave that the rule is “thou shalt not kill unless it seems pretty important” and that is not what the commandment says.<\/p>\n
History would have been a great deal less blood splattered if Christians had kept to that rule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nI do not understand Christians (and I guess this applies to some related religions too but I am thinking more of Christians here). They have all sorts of rules to live their lives by, but there is a “Big Ten” set. One of which is “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. Yet they will quite happily run around killing people (we’ll skip killing other things including animals for now … it is possible that the original words should be translated as ‘thou shalt not kill people’ or something).<\/p>\n
\nWell, perhaps not happily except for the deranged, and this little piece is not about them. But given sufficient incentive … like ‘go out and kill these soldiers or we’ll put you up against a wall and kill you’. Now do not get me wrong, this is not a criticism of soldiers who have a job to do. Do not forget that I am not a Christian and I believe it is sometimes necessary to kill (preferably when sanctioned by society).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[372,476],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-religion","tag-christians","tag-thou-shalt-not-kill","category-7-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}