How does religion explain birth defects?

[Loki_999]

God actually has held back, because he loves us.

Yeah, the bible is just dripping with love and tolerance. He loves us so much he allegedly caused a worldwide flood to kill most of us and ordered the wholesale genocide of entire races including the kids and animals. I mean, what the helll? The animals? What had they done wrong? Chewed their cud not he proscribed number of times?

We ALL deserve eternal damnation, because we are all sinful.

Speak for yourself. I'm practically perfect in every way.
Anyway, how long is he going to be pissed over that stunt with the stupid bint Eve and the tree? Come on! He created the tree and put it in the garden and then says "Don't eat from it!" It's got the words Epic Fail written all over it! God may be omnipotent but he is either bloody stupid or one evil son of a bitch.

God could destroy us all because we have turned away from Him, and have sinned.

And if he did that would show him to be a creator not worth worshiping. Not that he is a deity worth worshiping anyway... give me Dionysus any day, there is a god that knows how to party!

He would be totally justified in doing that.

So, if you have a kid and your kid curses you, disobeys you, ignores you, then you are justified in killing him? I think not.
I have two little cherubs (well, some of the time they are cherubs, sometimes they are demons from the lowest pits of hell) and I love them very much, and I despise myself when I slap them on the bottom for doing something badly wrong, and then i only do that if they have done something wrong when I have already told them not to. Killing them for disobeying me would be a little extreme don't you think?