Reply #41: The 'Context' Supplied, Sir, Does Not Justify Or Make Right The Actions Described

[The Magistrate]

You are attempting to justify extermination of an entire people: the murder of all adults and all male children, and the enslavement of young girls who survive as virgins. You are only doing this because it is presented as being done by command of a deity you believe in, and believe to be good and righteous altogether. Thus, when in the black and white of what you believe to be the inspired word of this deity, and believe to be wholly true, you find this monstrous crime set down, and set down with approval, you cannot face the implications, and must resort to degraded and shameful exercises in amateur sophistry of the lowest conceivable order. You do yourself a dis-service by this, Sir, and bring disrespect, even contempt, down upon yourself by doing so.