Moses Advocates Homicide
October 2nd, 2009
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
This is a simple story laid out in Numbers 31. God commands Moses to gather an army and destroy the Midianites. He gathers 12,000 men to destroy this city. They kill every man, take everything of value, and burn their homes to the ground. They take the women, children, and goods to Moses. Then, he tells them to kill all but the virgin girls, which they were to keep for themselves.
While God does not specifically command that Moses take the virgin girls, he does condone it. He demands that a portion of the spoils, including the virgins be sacrificed to him. Is this something that a good god would demand? Is this something that a good god would even allow to happen?
Moses, under the command of God, destroys an entire city, kills all but the virgin girls, sacrifices a portion of them to God, then allows all others to be divided up amongst the Israelites. God and Moses obviously have no respect for human life and even less respect for women.