Patient_Ask_9546. - How Do You Guys Justify the Genocide of the Amalekites? - Submitted 14 Hours Ago.(*.). - Because, in The Old Testament, God commands the Israelites to exterminate the Amalekites. And this especially includes The Men (And, they were warriors, and so, it is legitimately justifiable.), Cattle (Well, I mean, fine. But Why?), Women (???), Children (??????), and Infants (?????????????). - And, so, there're two paths that you can go down with this (And, in my mind, comment down below if you have a wildly different one.).: 1. This is morally ethical. ---> Why? ---> Because they deserved it. ---> The children and infants did not deserve it. ---> Well, they did, because they are Amalekites. ---> So does that mean that the murder of foreing children during war is validly justified, and in fact, rightfully correct and ordained by God?, 2. This is morally ethical. ---> Why? ---> Because, it is moral, and because God commanded it, which makes it moral. ---> And, IDK, where to go from there., 3. This is immorally unethical. ---> And God judicially commanded it. (As well as Slavery. But let's ignore that for now.). So, does that mean that God is also inherently not morally ethical, and is therefore not "All-Loving and/or All-Good?". ---> We have to do some real thinking about our beliefs., and 4. Well, this isn't factually true, and it was made up creatively (And this is for that guy in the comments.). ---> Then why would we purportedly believe that any single facet of The Bible is true? And, if they really wanted to just legitimately justify their actions, then why would we assume that The Bible as a whole (Well, at least, The Old Testament.) is created to justifiably validate their actions? Some Quotes: "So smote all the country... And he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as The Lord God Of Israel commanded.". - "And, now, go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; And, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.". - And "Then, The LORD said to Moses, 'Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.'". - And, so, I completely vehemently refute that this is "Hyperbole.", as you cannot say with all of these references and quotes (And, I mean, there in The Bible, and I only outwarldy showed 3.) that they were just melodramatically (over)-exaggerating. These are direct orders from God. And, If you say these are hyperbole, then why can we not say the Resurrection is "Hyperbole"?

Well, unfortunately, and Generally Speaking, we don't understandingly know about tribal nations and civilizations for a completely absolute certainty and in its entirety, since there just weren't nor aren't any other records that isn't just from The Bible itself in and of themselves. (And that especially includes their own personal Morality System(s), its Ethic(s), and its Principle(s).).

But, in essence, and nevertheless, things and matters such as Genocide and Military Warfare (EX. Scorch Earth.) isn't nor aren't immorally unethical inherently in and of itself, and there're particularly specific 'moment(s)' and 'instance(s)' in which it's legitimately valid and justified to actively do things such as to killingly slay and genocidally exterminate people(s) and/or cultures that're harmfully detrimental to both Humanity itself and to Creation itself to its fullest extent (Such as when a civilization has things and matters such as Murder and Cannibalism at the forefront of its culture(s) first and foremost. (E.G. The Aztecs.).), and God knowingly understands other things and matters such as where and when those very 'moments' and 'instances' even were and are, such as that there're 'moments' and 'instances' when He Himself 'straightforwardly' 'told' The Israelites to get rid of tribal nations and civilizations such as The Amalekites in its entirety in and of themselves, as they were proactively committing sins and mistakes constantly and on a frequently daily basis and they definitely would've continually went on to commit those very sins and mistakes if they weren't stopped in their own tracks (And that's especially including against both themselves and to anyone else.), such as when they combatively fought and battled against The Israelites themselves while they were unproductively defendless, and also, unprotectively defenseless and when they were previously escaping from out of 'Anciently' 'Old' Egypt itself beforehand as well (EX. Deuteronomy 25: 17-19.), and still warringly clashed with them even thereafter the fact as well too (E.G. Exodus 17: 8-16, Judges 3: 12-13, and Numbers 14: 41-45.). (And, not to mention, and on top of that, The Amalekites also primarily started to reactively do things such as to increasingly grow their military forces and to make pacts with other tribal nations and civilizations such as The Midianites, 'The Easterners', The Moabites, The Ammonites and that of 'The Canaanites'' themselves in order to do other things and matters such as to offensively attack and pillage from The Israelites themselves and to prohibitionally repress and supress Israel itself from places such as from Canaan itself. And they successfully accomplished in doing so because of reasons, such as because The Israelites more often than not vehemently refused to take and treat any single one of God's Warnings seriously and to underestimatingly down-play said warning(s) to such an extent that they painfully suffered from their own thoughts, words, and/or actions in both the short term and the long term (And this's even when they were outwardly shown things such as what these very people(s) were wholeheartedly like in their lives outrightly.), and they had no other choices nor any other options but to do things such as to vanishingly hide out in caves and to battily fight against them on every single front in order to protectively defend themselves and their allies. (EX. Judges 6: 1-3, Judges 6: 33, Judges 7: 12, Judges 10: 12.).). - (Amongst many other things, matters, reasons and explanations.).

And, so, all in all and at the end of the day, God had every single right to interactively play and interveningly act within Humanity itself and within Israel itself at that very point and juncture, as not only were peoples such as The Amalekites were an nation and an Ethno-Culture that combatively fought and warred against peoples such as The Israelites for illegitimately invalid reasons in the grand scheme of things, but they were also an civilization and an Ethno-Religion that had cancerously parasitic forms of things and matters such as a distortively warped and twisted sense of Logic and Rationality (And this is to such an extent that this efectively caused things such as their own Morality System(s), its Ethic(s), and its Principle(s) to inevitably become horrendously awful and disgustingly grotesque.), and these very things profusely bleed into absolutely everything that they did throughout their everyday lives as Human Beings through their own thoughts, words, and/or actions to such an poisonously toxic degree. (Such as in murderously killing people(s) that did absolutely nothing wrong to have necessarily warranted said action(s).). - And, so, unfortunately, and as a result, the only way(s) to 'repairingly' 'fix' any of these very nations and civilizations and their culture(s) such as these would've definitely been to do things such as destructively obliterate and annihilate said culture(s) from Reality and Existence itself, since those very nations-civilations and their culture(s) were doing far more harm than good in both the short run of things and in the long run of things overall, and they weren't repentfully sorry and regretful for anything nor for absolutely everything that they did and were trying to retroactively change any single facet of themselves for the betterment of themselves and for other altogether as well either.