• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      13 days ago

      They genocided the Canaanites in all of them.

      There is historical/archaeological/genetic evidence.

      That was how they stole that land in the first place. By murdering every man, woman, child, and animal in the land.

      • MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml
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        12 days ago

        Genocide of the canaanites is definitely in the Bible but possibly/probably didn’t happen as much as the Bible says. I’m sure there were times when whole cities were put to the sword but a lot of the stories in the Bible seem more like they were made up later as a way of claiming racial purity. It made it so the Hebrews could say “there’s no way we’re mixed with canaanites cuz we killed all the canaanites”

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      13 days ago

      If you’re using the old testament to say they lived there then you cannot ignore the old testament saying other people lived there too.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
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        12 days ago

        I think you misunderstand. I’m saying the bible is a shit piece of cobbles together fairy tales, ramblings, sheep herder narrations, and hallucinations that has been rewritten and retold in so many different versions that is serves little to no historical evidence. You might as well be born in 4000 and basing your historical knowledge on winnie the pooh to recount what happened in 2000.