How do you reconcile your god, the mass murderer?

[Chad32]

That's not our fault. We have a book that's supposed to be our window into what he's like, and most of it involves killing. And apparently when he comes back, he's going to do it again.

So killing is no good?

Killing off sections of the population, or killing nearly everything on the planet, is not a solution to the problem Humans face. It is a symptom of problems like tribalism, resource inequality, and subjugation of weaker groups by more powerful groups. Likely among others. A god should be powerful and intelligent enough to not have to resort to it. As far as I can tell, Yahweh doesn't do much to really fix societal problems. He might pass down some laws to mitigate problems, but it took us working together, sometimes against religious groups, to bring freedom and equality to the world.

I've heard talk about how he was patient with some groups, but when his patience ran out, he decided to have them killed. But that just begs the question, what did he do while he was being patient? The bible rarely if ever really goes into detail about these things. It focuses more on "just do what he says, and you won't die". Similar to how my father says "do what I tell you, and I won't beat you". Getting beaten as a child didn't help me become a better man. Killing people by itsself doesn't help society become better.