What's the Ugly Passage?

"Why don't we start with the canaanites? Ok?" he asks. "This is kind of the, you know, the ugly passage in the old test or aleast,. You know, nothing is ugly in the bible." But i meats a passage that throws people for a loop. Did god really command wholesale slaughter of an entire people group? And what dod we do with that? Right? Well, of course, there's nothing that when it comes to the people themselves. There's nothing inherently deficient, problematic, immoral with these people in themselves. It's simply their behavior that would be considered a criminal in any modern society. A bestiality, a ritual prostitution,

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