God holds press conference

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Schlobin at a... wrote:
>   <A 
HREF="http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html">
> God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule</A> 
> 
>       NEW YORKâ€"Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the 
omniscient 
> creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths 
for more 
> than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against 
humans 
> killing each other Monday.
> 
>     
> Above: God.  
>       only do I not want anybody to kill 
> anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple 
terms that 
> anybody ought to be able to understand."


IIRC, the Hebrew word used in the Ten Commandments should be more 
accurately translated as "murder" (Thou shalt not murder). "Killing" 
during times of war, in defense of Israel, OTOH, is fully sanctioned 
by Hebrew Scripture. They don't call him the Lord of Hosts on account 
of his hospitality.

Saul killed a thousand
But David killed ten thousand 
   
   - I Samuel 29:5

Does that make David ten times worse? or ten times better?

  - CMC (listening to Havergal Brian's 4th Symphony, The Psalm of 
Victory - a choral setting of Psalm 68, a gloriously bloodthirsty 
amalgamation of music and text)