A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • Reads "thou shalt not kill" commandment.

  • Declares holy war on indigenous people.

This goes beyond irony blindness, this is straight cherry picking for convenience.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The commandment is actually "you shall not murder". There's a distinct difference between killing and murdering; murder can be categorised as only a small subset of killing. I could be misled but I'm under the impression that to old testament era Jews killing a non-jew was never murder.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • 1 Samuel 15:2-4

    2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

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