Bible Quote of the Day From 1 Samuel

.... [2] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. [3] Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. ....

The great writer Catholic Evelyn Waugh was often a wretched person-and yet reminded those who had to suffer him that he would be a far worse man without his Christianity. I wonder sometimes when I read the above passages what sort of person I would be if I believed in the God of Battles-for far too often modern Christians forget the bloody roots of the Hebrew faith. Those that wish to wash the blood of the Hebrew Bible away with the redemptive message of the New Testament, remeber these lines from Matthew:

.... [33] But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. [34] Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. [35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. [37] He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. ....