A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Now – as always – it’s time for non-violence. You might think that all religions preached non-violence. Christ, for example, advocated it.

Yet his approach was a radical one, hence his rejection by his people as an irrelevant voice in their struggle to throw off the Roman yoke.

Listen to Yahweh: “Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them.” Deuteronomy 7.2

“slay man and woman, infant and suckling” 1 Samuel 15.3

Listen to the Prophet: “Smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them” Surah Muhammad 47.4

“If they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them” Surah al-Nisa 4.89

This desert god is a warrior god who defends his people against all comers. And the war goes on.