[Quote from Praeco_Noctis: Numbers 31:17-18:
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Anyone able to offer any possible defence of this? So far I've seen a woeful attempt at apologetics that says because you weren't allowed to sell Israelite girls as prostitutes, this wouldn't have happened - despite them being foreigners.

Other reactions have generally been embarassed shuffling of feet—]

getsuga_tensho: .........this needs justification?

[Yes getsuga, you clearly opposed mass murder in WA&P, you can't suddenly become a Biblical schizo here.]

gestuga_tensho: its not murder if God approves, its justice