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Originally Posted by TampaToker
Well the Jews should define there enemies as evil and put believers of other religions to death. After all it specify says in Deuteronomy 13 all non believers and believers of other gods should be stoned to death.
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No, God is talking about and to Jews only, it's Jewish non-believers and idolators who God specifies should die. God was a total asshole to the Jews, nothing they did was ever good enough, punished them over and over. When the Torah was first written it was clear that God was only the god of the Israelites, even God refers to the other gods. It's not until much later in the development of Judaism that God transforms into the God of the entire universe and every living thing.
?If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ?Let us go and serve other gods,? which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."