(03-25-2020, 09:02 PM)SteveII Wrote: If the ideology does not have as a feature the thing that caused the atrocity, you cannot logically call it by that name. It is a meaningless connection of two words. Even if the person perpetrating the atrocity cites the ideology as reason, if the ideology does not contain those characteristics, the perpetrator is either mistaken or lying. Either way, we have the knowledge not to make the same mistake. To continue to make it requires a perpetuation of a fact that is not true.
No True Scotsman wears pants either, does he?
Your Bible has descriptions of and commands to exterminate non-believers. That you don't believe those OT parts doesn't matter. What matters is that the ideology is in the words themselves and they are followed by many hundreds of millions.
That doesn't say anything about the veracity of your interpretation, ignoring as it does more than half the book.
