(February 23, 2013 at 9:08 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 22, 2013 at 11:33 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: How was all the smiting justified? It contradicts the Christian doctrine of turning the other cheek and the Golden Rule.That was a joke, FTR. But the short answer is I don't know. But since I believe there is a God and that He is both merciful and just...I can only believe He acted consistently on His knowledge of their hearts. My guess is that He would know who had so corrupted themselves with evil that they had lost the capacity to repent. As such they had already died within and being removed from this earth was merely a formality.
Until you remember that God's slaughters, both direct and commanded, were all indiscriminate. The all-powerful God, apparently lacking the capacity to assassinate the specific individuals who are actually committing whatever sins he believes worthy of mass murder, kills everybody.
Men.
Women.
Children.
Infants.
Even the unborn, for that abortion-flavored irony.
In several instances, God intentionally targets children, even unborn.
Can you tell us what evil God saw in the hearts of toddlers, infants and even fetuses, so that you can justify your God's many holocausts?