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Originally Posted by NatCh
Note that the passage you're focusing on, "Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." comes after these words: "Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you." (emphasis added, if it needs to be said)
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The former residents weren't killed and driven out in order to make them convert, they were simply killed and driven out.
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And how does that fit with a commandment of "thou shalt not kill?"
(For a pack of rules often claimed to be the moral foundation for all US society, it's amazing that only three and a half of them are actually built into our laws.) (Adultery is no longer illegal in most states, although it is still grounds for divorce. Sort of. In those states that need grounds.)