Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Atrocities/war crimes condoned in the Bible

Tragic.

The Christians build on existing witchcraft superstitions.

Toyin

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 21:45 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Have you noticed that there is no mass killing of witches in the Bible? The witch craze of the dark ages took an estimated 9 million lives, mostly women, who were killed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, according to Mary Daly in Gyn/Ecology. 

The Nazis also tried to use religion to rationalize their mass killings of millions in the struggle over which European bourgeois nations would have the largest colonies in Africa. Soyinka, in Of Africa, argues that African religiosity is a better model for humanity because of the absence of religious wars traditionally.

Micah 5:12

I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.

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I just heard that one of my cousins was lynched in the village this Christmas because her husband who lives in Europe accused her of being the one who caused him to avoid returning home, and who killed one of their children died; her daughter can't find a husband because of her medicine pot. The villagers gathered, paraded her and stoned her to death for allegedly having a list of the names of dead people that she allegedly killed with witchrcaft (could be a list of people she gave gifts to their families to support funeral expenses as is frequently done with the expectation that the gifts would be returned in times of need). 

V.C. Uchendu used to teach us in Calabar that the Igbo believed in Chi to protect them against witches while their neighbors believed more in witch hunting and killing. Does the invention or intrusion of monarchical traditions among the radically republican Igbo help to explain the emergence of hysteria about witchcraft or is the witchcraze more the fault of fundamentalist Christendom and Nollywood narratives?

Biko

On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 13:06:31 GMT-5, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

"could i know what motivated your interest in this at this time?", asks Gatekeeper Adepoju. He wants to know. If it's a healthy curiosity maybe we should oblige him by reminding him that for starters, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has described Himself as "a Mighty Warrior"

You Oluwatoyin Adepoju, master of hermeneutics, so you think it's fair game to quote passages from the Holy Quran beseeching the Faithful to slaughter the infidels, and that the historic mass slaughter and dispossession of e.g. Palestinians in this century and the last century in the tragic event referred to as the Nakba, is to be understood allegorically or read symbolically. Is that the way you understand the Book of Joshua ? Old man Noah and the Flood? All the Battles recorded in the Bible, I mean the battles you have read about in the Hebrew Bible . The destruction of the first and second Temple? The Crucifixion of Jesus? The Holocaust? The oncoming thermonuclear Armageddon? 

On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 05:24:23 UTC+1 ovdepoju wrote:

thanks Gloria.

did you compile this?

could i know what motivated your interest in this at this time?

toyin

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 07:54, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

DWB Chapter	Killing Event	Scriptural Reference	Biblical number	Estimate
1	The Flood of Noah	Gen 7:23	–
2	Abraham's war to rescue Lot	Gen 14:17-19	–	1000
3	Sodom and Gomorrah	Gen 19:24	–	2,000
4	Lot's wife	Gen 19:26	1	1
5	Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord	Gen 38:7	1	1
6	Onan for spilling his seed	Gen 38:10	1	1
7	God's seven year, world-wide famine	Gen 41:25-54	–	70,000
8	The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail	Ex 9:25	–	300,000
9	God killed all first born Egyptian children	Ex 12:29-30	–	500,000
10	God drowned the Egyptian army	Ex 14:8-26	600	5,000
11	Amalekites	Ex 17:13	–	1,000
12	Who is on the Lord's side?	Ex 32:27-28	3,000	3,000
13	God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf	Ex 32:35	–	1,000
14	God burns Aaron's sons to death	Lev 10:1-3	2	2
15	A blasphemer is stoned to death	Lev 24:10-23	1	1
16	God burned people to death for complaining	Num 11:1	–	100
17	God plagued the people for complaining about the food	Num 11:33	–	10,000
18	Ten scouts are killed for their honest report	Num 14:35-36	10	10
19	A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day	Num 15:32-35	1	1
20	The opposing party is buried alive (with their families)	Num 16:27	3	9
21	250 burned to death for burning incense	Num 16:35	250	250
22	For complaining about God's killings	Num 16:49	14,700	14,700
23	The massacre of the Aradites	Num 21:1-3	–	3,000
24	God sent snakes to bite people for complaining	Num 21:6	–	100
25	Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's killings	Num 25:1-11	24,002	24,002
26	The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women alive?	Num 31:1-35	6	200,000
27	God slowly kills the Israelite army	Dt 2:14-16	–	500,000
28	God the giant killer	Dt 2:21-22	–	5,000
29	God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and all his people	Dt 2:33-34	1	5,000
30	Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites	Dt 3:3-6	1	60,000
31	The Jericho Massacre	Jos 6:21	–	1,000
32	Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death	Jos 7:10-12, 24-26	1	5
33	The Ai massacre	Jos 8:1-25	12,000	12,000
34	God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the daylight	Jos 10:10-11	–	5,000
35	Five kings killed and hung on trees	Jos 10:26	5	10,000
36	Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God commanded	Jos 10:28-42	7	7,000
37	Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities	Jos 11:8-12	2	20,000
38	The Anakim: More giant killing	Jos 11:20-21	–	5,000
39	The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites	Jg 1:4	10,000	10,000
40	The Jerusalem Massacre	Jg 1:8	–	1,000
41	Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots	Jg 1:9-25	–	5,000
42	The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim	Jg 3:7-10	1	1,000
43	Ehud delivers a message from God	Jg 3:15-22	1	1
44	God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites	Jg 3:28-29	10,000	10,000
45	Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad	Jg 3.31	600	600
46	Barak and God massacre the Canaanites	Jg 4:15-16	–	1,000
47	Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull	Jg 4:18-22	1	1
48	Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow	Jg 7:22	120,000	120,000
49	A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit	Jg 9:23-57	1,001	2,000
50	The Ammonite Massacre	Jg 11:32-33	–	20,000
51	Jephthah's Daughter	Jg 11:39	1	1
52	42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test	Jg 12.4-7, Heb 11.32	42,000	42,000
53	Samson murders 30 men for their clothes	Jg 14:19	30	30
54	Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass	Jg 15:14-15	1,000

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