On genocide

As I wrote over on Vanity Fair's forum, V.F. Dish, under the thread "Rallies Will Focus Attention On Darfur Genocide":

I am against genocide and for exposing it wherever it exists.

I was thinking of going to one of the closest Native American reservations (or an enclave of a tribe that has been denied status) and quietly reminding myself of the history of my nation.

This is not to say that what is going on in Darfur is not evil (to use our President's word), but I am afraid that the world has an ongoing example of the benefits of a ruthless policy of genocide, a policy of a people who have yet to be redeemed by remorse, confession, and repentance.

We are not followers of Jesus of the New Testament or Gandhi of our era. We are followers of Joshua of the Old Testament:

But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

- Joshua 6:19-21

(King James Version of the Old Testament, Bible;
www.blueletterbible.org)

For Jesus taught us:

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

-Matthew 7:1-5
(King James Version of the New Testament, Bible;
www.blueletterbible.org)

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