> It seems to me "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty clear and unambiguous. In isolation, and if that was what it said in the source language, sure. When the same

> It seems to me "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty clear and unambiguous. In isolation, and if that was what it said in the source language, sure. When the same source (either of the books of the Bible containing -- slightly different -- versions of the decalogue) also includes lots of specific commands to kill from the same origin as the "Thou shalt not kill", it gets murkier, and when also the "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably closer in the source language to "do not murder", well... (Which is not to defend the practice at issue, just to point out that the decalogue is not, alone, necessarily a great way to make the point that it should have been clearly wrong within the religious framework it nominally sought to server; I think there are good arguments, both within and without that framework, just not that one on its own.)