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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Context is important. It's a song of imagined - and not executed - revenge. The writer is wishing that what happened to their kids also happened to the invaders kids. The Babylonians dashed Jewish kids against rocks, and the Jews didn't respond in kind - couldn't in fact, because the Law forbade it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The thing is, most people that will cite the bible as an argument are already taking shit out of their context, so at this point it's just fair game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Context seems to be largely ignored when your argument sounds so great