Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words

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“Do not leave alive a single soul, completely destroy them—the Hittities, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you”

— Rabbinic Sages 20 – 200 CE via Deuteronomy 20:16-17
from Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh

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Shan Dao 3 years ago

"This is one of the first recorded instances in human history when genocide was presented as a binding religious duty."—Yuval Harari

Themes

Aggression

Evil