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(4) According to the Bible, God commanded and commended genocide. (5) A good being, let alone the supremely good Being, would never command or commend an atrocity." [ 10 ] Of early Christians, Marcion was most bothered by this dilemma, but his proposed resolution—denying that the God of the Old Testament was the same as the Christian God ...
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Another nuance to the genocide debate is whether the destruction of the Ukrainian population needs to be the sole or primary intent of the famine in order for it to be a genocide. For example, Andrea Graziosi argues the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization, but that once the famine ...
Raphael Lemkin (a pioneer of genocide studies [103]: 35 who coined the term genocide, and an initiator of the Genocide Convention), called the famine an intentional genocide. James Mace and Norman Naimark have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin. [171]
Famine's mission to make wheat and barley scarce but "hurt not the oil and the wine" could be an allusion to this episode. [ 34 ] [ 51 ] The red horse and its rider, who take peace from the Earth, might represent the prevalence of civil strife at the time Revelation was written; internecine conflict ran rampant in the Roman Empire during and ...
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The Senate unanimously adopted a motion on the recognition of the Holodomor as a "Famine-Genocide" in 2003, [68] for Canada "to condemn any attempt to deny or distort this historical truth as anything less than a genocide", [h] and called for a day of remembrance for "those that perished during the time of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide" to be ...
Famine is the top tier, Phase 5, “the absolute inaccessibility of food to an entire population or sub-group of a population, potentially causing death in the short term.”