What is Genocide?

The International Criminal Court defines it as such:

"genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Now then, under this definition, what is Genocide?

1. Any killing of two or more people.
2. Anything that hurts others’ feelings.
3. Not maintaining a building, especially for poorer groups.
4. Abortion–it allows people to choose, so this prevents births, which is exactly what it tries to do.
5. Deportation, Exile, and other such things, because it moves children (along with their parents) to another place forcibly.

Now look at e. Exile? Hmm… didn’t God exile the Jews to Babylon? Does this mean that God committed Genocide? The definition is just too broad to use practically. We should use “Holocaust” instead of “Genocide” for the generally accepted “mass murder” definition.