Sharia Law at Wal Mart [Trigger Warning: People Arguing With Ben]

[kentonio]

Ah, the old handwave defense. "we don't know that they attempted genocide". What part of attacking a smaller, weaker nation while they are still in the desert isn't clear?

You are the most hilarious excuse for a 'historian' ever.

"Well we don't know that they wouldn't have committed genocide so we should obviously assume that they would have, because that's how historical analysis works"

******.

[giblets]

They would all be riding in the pope mobile behind bullet proof glass and in long dresses.
Try to score a chick like that. You can't.

They're not supposed to score a chick.

[Bereta_Eder]

What are they supposed to do then?

[giblets]

Be celibate.

[Bereta_Eder]

That's only if they have a small bald spot on the top of their head.

[MRT144]

I like how Ben is like "Nobody is condemning this other group of people who did wrong". If there ever were a rhetorical device that was overused by a stupid person, it's that.

[loinburger]

The Jews surely would have genocided the Nazis if they'd been given the chance

[giblets]

I like how Ben is like "Nobody is condemning this other group of people who did wrong". If there ever were a rhetorical device that was overused by a stupid person, it's that.

The fact that no one is holding up the Amalekites as a model of moral behavior somehow never crossed his mind.

[Ben Kenobi]

The fact that no one is holding up the Amalekites as a model of moral behavior somehow never crossed his mind.

I've never seen an atheist condemn the Amalekites. Which puzzles me. If you're a humanist, it would disgust me what they did.

[Ben Kenobi]

"Well we don't know that they wouldn't have committed genocide so we should obviously assume that they would have, because that's how historical analysis works"

That's precisely how the handwave defense works, fwiw. Also used by holocaust deniers in the exact same way. You're saying that unless the translator explicitly uses the word 'genocide' that it doesn't count as genocide. Which is a curious position because you also believe that language doesn't have objective meaning.

[Aeson]

I've never seen an atheist condemn the Amalekites. Which puzzles me. If you're a humanist, it would disgust me what they did.

It's almost like atheists aren't scouring their Bible for little tidbits about lesser known and completely irrelevant tribes who purportedly did things thousands of years ago.

[Ben Kenobi]

It's almost like atheists aren't scouring their Bible for little tidbits about lesser known and completely irrelevant tribes who purportedly did things thousands of years ago.

And yet they do just that when it's the Jews.

[Aeson]

You think the Jews are completely irrelevant? Anti-semite!

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't see the rationale for the fixation with what the Jews have done from humanists.

[Aeson]

That's because you're retarded.