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Mosby

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1. The Torah doesn't say "thou shall not kill"

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:34 PM

Nov 2018

It says "thou shall not murder".

The author is using a straw man argument.

More to the point, Jews for example are not pacifists, they will defend themselves using deadly force if necessary, and clearly have damn good reasons to use armed guards at their houses of worship.

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