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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould Jesus Be Ripping Them Kids From Their Mothers Arms?
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Would Jesus Be Ripping Them Kids From Their Mothers Arms? (Original Post)
PaulX2
Jun 2018
OP
Suffer little children -republican Jesus said it. Did it lose something in translation?
keithbvadu2
Jun 2018
#2
Rightwing evangelicals are all about asserting power over other people's lives.
Blue_true
Jun 2018
#3
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Just the first born male children
Evangelical Christians are quite familiar with the Biblical principles applying to how one treats the children of "others":
1 Samuel 15:2-3 ESV
Thus says the Lord of hosts, I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."
Exodus 12:29-30 ESV
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
Joshua 6:20-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
Numbers 31:17-18 ESV
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
keithbvadu2
(37,101 posts)2. Suffer little children -republican Jesus said it. Did it lose something in translation?
Suffer little children -republican Jesus said it. Did it lose something in translation?
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Blue_true
(31,261 posts)3. Rightwing evangelicals are all about asserting power over other people's lives.
They really don't care about supposed teachings if the teachings conflict with what they want to do.