22 Oct '12 07:43>2 edits
Originally posted by vivifyGod ordered the destruction of entire tribes, really, which ones, you have not said? In
"How many did God kill"?
Well, at least a few thousand, since the bible god ordered the killing of entire tribes--multiple times. And when you factor in that the bible god killed the entire earth via a global flood...that would bring the death count up to at least a billion.
So to answer your question: your god's killed about a billion children.
the case of the Canaanite, it was divine judgement for 'polluting the land', with immoral
practices such as child sacrifice of which there is a plethora of archaeological evidence,
in the case of the midianites, God ordered the Israelites not to attack them at all, and
in deed the majority of cases the mandate was to drive the Canaanites out, its only
when they took a stance of war, that they were destroyed making your assertions
utterly ludicrous. About a billion, did you dream that number up like the rest of your
text? let it be noted that you have not addressed a single point in my entire text as to
Gods impartiality, his attempts to reconcile mankind to himself or anything of real
substance. So lets get this, God was responsible for one or two tribes, Hitler directly
or indirectly responsible for tens of millions of people in WWII, thank you for putting
it in perspective for us, we couldn't have done it without you.