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March 20, 2005
God hates race mixing?
According to David Neiwert, the Terri Schiavo case has attracted the attention of some religious crackpots who call themselves members of the "Phineas Priesthood." According to a number of websites, they consider religious murders biblically justified: The Biblical reference indicates that Phineas, a priest, killed an Israelite man who was having sexual relations with a Midianite woman by thrusting a javelin through both of them together. This act of double murder apparently made God reverse his plan to set a plague on Israel for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab." And because Phineas was "zealous for my sake," God was moved to set up "the covenant of an everlasting priesthood." Contemporary Phineas Priests interpret these and other Biblical passages as a justification for the murder of "race-mixers" and for a program of establishing a whites only, Christian only, state in North America. Phineas priests believe themselves to be called by God to the use of any form of violence to re-establish what they claim to be "God's Law." Phineas actions, involving murder, arson, kidnapping, bombing, and armed robbery, become sacred actions designed to deliver the US and Canada from adultery, taxation, homosexuality, abortion, interracial marriages, and multiculturalism.I guess I'm out of step with the times, as I haven't been keeping up with these looney tunes as I should. While the above comes from a Communist web site, I verified independently that there is a loosely affiliated network of Christian murderers who claim they're killing in the name of their bigoted god, who (so they claim) hates race mixing: *Numbers 25:6-13A typical racist interpretation can be found here: This passage goes on and God gives to Phineas a perpetual, eternal priesthood. Then in verse 17, God commands the children of Israel to kill all of the Midianites. We note that Phineas killed both the non-white woman and metaphorically the mongrel offspring, by stabbing her through the womb. The man also was killed, as prescribed by the law which we have previously cited. Phineas's grandson, Esdras, faced the same problem. His final solution was again, as commanded by God, to command the offenders to kill the women and the offspring. Phineas is recorded in Israelite history as one of the greatest of all Israelites for his action of killing this race-mixing couple. In fact, Sirach 45:23 (LXX) records that Phineas was the third in glory, behind only Moses and Aaron, among all the heroes of Israel:That's just a particular interpretation of a particular assertion. Etc. It's too late, and I'm too tired. Besides, the real Phineas was a guy who thought there was one born every minute. He was probably right. posted by Eric on 03.20.05 at 11:07 PM |
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