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Omfg

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18 points

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.

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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.

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8 points

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

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