As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again.
Paul TherouxAbortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: murder weapons christian violence thought-provoking cruelty genocide abortion catholic human-rights weapons-of-mass-destruction pro-life infanticide gadfly twitter-quotes prolife mass-destruction stand-up-for-what-is-right
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
Sydney J. HarrisStichwörter: war hate violence genocide ethnic-cleansing
I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is a vacuous exercise to pick and choose which atrocities were really ordained by any gods and which were not. We should have a zero-tolerance view of any text or collection of texts that at any time endorses genocide, misogyny, and other atrocities. We always judge ancient texts by modern ethical standards, and the Bible should not be treated differently.
Hector AvalosStichwörter: morality ethics atheism misogyny genocide myths cherry-picking special-pleading ancient-literature atrocities-in-the-bible biblical-ethics biblical-morality cherry-picking-scripture genocide-in-the-bible misogyny-in-the-bible special-treatment
Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
Jonathan SwiftStichwörter: murder killing genocide religious-violence blood divine-right conversion convert divine-command-theory horrors-of-religion
Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.
Henry ClayStichwörter: genocide racism native-americans social-darwinism manifest-destiny
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