Can someone explain this quote to me about the Gods of the Amorites?

[Anonymous]

Amorites were rootless nomads that killed people and wiped out entire established, peaceful villages for grazing land.

Why a poster (who knows so little about Amorites that they are asking internet strangers for information on them) is so very very outraged about this issue is pathetic.

You know there are millions of people in poverty that need help, right? Why focus on antiquity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You seem to be conflating ancient Judaism and Christianity which makes your argument seem a lot weaker and more like ranting.

Joshua was hardly a “Christian.” The battle of Jericho, if it happened, was in the 13th century BC. It’s always fun when ignorance and bigotry collide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amorites were rootless nomads that killed people and wiped out entire established, peaceful villages for grazing land.

Why a poster (who knows so little about Amorites that they are asking internet strangers for information on them) is so very very outraged about this issue is pathetic.

You know there are millions of people in poverty that need help, right? Why focus on antiquity?

Can you explain what happened to the original inhabitants of Jerusalem? Was it a peaceful and happy slaughter when the ancient Israelites committed it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

A pp wrote in the post above the post above yours:

“Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

This is a total non sequitur in this thread, which is about an Old Testament quote about the ancient Amorites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

So what? Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same God and go after each other and themselves besides taking it to pagan faiths. Maybe it’s not religion that’s violent but people in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

Sadly even today in the 21st Century there are countries that execute heretics, proselytizers, and converts from the established faith. An author was just almost assassinated because he blasphemed a religion. A whole nation celebrated the attempt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

Sadly even today in the 21st Century there are countries that execute heretics, proselytizers, and converts from the established faith. An author was just almost assassinated because he blasphemed a religion. A whole nation celebrated the attempt.

But that isn’t Christianity. Can you define “deflection”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

Amorites killed people for grazing land. They were violent and murderous. They were not peaceful people minding their own business and killed wantonly.


op has no grasp of history and ancient cultures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

Amorites killed people for grazing land. They were violent and murderous. They were not peaceful people minding their own business and killed wantonly.


op has no grasp of history and ancient cultures.

OP is a troll who found this on some atheist website or podcast and thought it would be cute to pretend it came from a friend. The perils of mixing bigotry with ignorance….

[Anonymous]

If we’re bumping idiotic threads, this one needs to stay near the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we’re bumping idiotic threads, this one needs to stay near the top.

It does. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.

He competed, and won. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.) Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.

What? Nobody said that.

9:39 said that.

“Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all? I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing. It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.”

Amorites killed people for grazing land. They were violent and murderous. They were not peaceful people minding their own business and killed wantonly.


op has no grasp of history and ancient cultures.

History as written by who?

It’s convenient to name the people that were annihilated as the bad guys.