Oxymoron Of The Day: "Rational Religious Ideology" UPDATED

The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper™ has more on the Hebrew Gawd of MurderWar & His adherents. Doesn't look as if any of the blood-thirsty genocidal rabbis can actually be counted on to kill anyone or destroy anything themselves, but the cheer leading of murder, rape & pillage has been the way of the religious since humanity started recording history, & doubtless long before that.

"This rabbi comes to us and says the fight is between the children of light and the children of darkness," a reserve sergeant said, recalling a training camp encounter. "His message was clear: 'This is a war against an entire people, not against specific terrorists.' The whole thing was turned into something very religious and messianic."

Does the phrase "Racial Holy War" sound familiar? Ironic, innit? And what isn't these days?

UPDATE (25 March 2009 @ 1644): Missed the best part, until we read the actual dead tree edition:

In testimony reported by Israeli news media and in interviews with The Times, Gaza veterans said rabbis advised army units to show the enemy no mercy and called for resettlement of the Palestinian enclave by Jews. "The rabbis were all over, in every unit," said Yehuda Shaul, a retired army officer whose human rights group, Breaking the Silence, has taken testimony from dozens of Gaza veterans. "It was quite well organized."