Again! to tell me that God did this because of child sacrifice is ridiculous when you consider the 300 million other people who were all doing as you suggested.
I didn't say that God did it because of child sacrifice. God did it because they built and worshiped the calf. What I was saying is that you can't bring up "religious freedom" into this and start throwing "Buddhists, Muslim, Jews, Hindus," into the discussion because God did condemn human sacrifice and the worship of the calf did involve human sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 12:31"
in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even
burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods."
2 Kings 17:14-17"But they would not listen and were as
stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not trust in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their fathers and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, "Do not do as they do," and they did the things the LORD had forbidden them to do.
They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and
made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal. 17 They
sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire."
Deuteronomy 18:9
"Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire"
The people of the united states gave them the authority.
Really? You? You and who else gave the authority to kill a human being for committing a so called "treason"? Who are you and those others to decide what is treason and to decide who committed it and to take their life?
All of which directly produces harm.
So a person who commits treason directly commits murder? They haven't killed anyone, yet they are put to death(murdered?).
As it happens they get punished.
They get killed(murdered?).
by joining an organization in the USA you do not get punished until you commit a crime that produces victims.
OzmO, this has nothing to do with joining an organization. I dropped that one the minute you told me that joining a murderous terrorist group in the US is not a crime. I never said that joining a group is treason. That is exactly why I posted the definition of what is treason in the US.
These people were not doing that. They were following a religion......like Buddists, Muslim, Jews, Hindus, etc.... Are you justified under God's example to kill all of them?
No, not like "Buddhists, Muslim, Jews, Hindus" You are actually insulting all these religions:
Moloch and Malcom are the same deity. Thus, the tabernacle or Sukkoth was understood to be that of Moloch and the star was of Raiphan as at the translation of the LXX or Malcom and Chiun from the Aramaic (cf. Lamsa's translation of the Peshitta). We are dealing with the fertility rites of Moloch and the Raiphan system. This fertility system has underpinned Israelite idolatry from the Exodus, through the kings and at the time of Amos and right after the captivity to the time of the apostles.
The Minotaur is the same being worshipped in the same way as the god Moloch or Malcom. It is the bull cult transferred to the crescent moon and involved human sacrifice (cf. Frazer The Golden Bough , Macmillan Press, 1976 print, iv, pp. 70-75).
The symbolism surrounding this calf system at Sinai, from Sin as progenitor, ties into the earliest and most primitive sacrificial system employing also temple and cult prostitution on a widespread level. This is the reason the revelry was associated with the Golden Calf. By the invocation, Sin as moon-god represented by the calf, the three-fold or triune aspects of he and his offspring were invoked.
The calf was also a symbol of fertility in the nature religions of the ancient Near-East. These symbols were incorporated into the feasts of Israel by Jeroboam as two calves (cf. 1Kings 12:28; Hos. 8:5; fn. to Oxford Annotated Bible RSV, p. 109).
The worship at the tabernacle of Moloch or Chemosh, was prevalent at the time of the Exodus, as we see from the advice of Balaam to the Moabites, to cast a stumbling-block to the children of Israel. The calf-headed Moloch or Malcom and the Minotaur both involved human sacrifice.
http://www.ccg.org/english/s/p222.html
Deuteronomy 12:31"You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods."