Craig and Genocide

[thesummerqueen]

I know I've seen this before but couldn't remember if it was on here or one of my feeds. Forgive me if someone posted the original and point it out. Regardless:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40992

As Dawkins points out, Craig argues not only that it's morally acceptable to kill women and children, the elderly and the disabled, but that the most troubling part of the whole story is the psychological trauma inflicted on the Israelite soldiers who were ordered to kill them. Craig not only isn't embarrassed by this monstrous position; he digs in and defends it:

If you believe in the salvation, as I do, of children, who die, what that meant is that the death of these children meant their salvation. People look at this [genocide] and think life ends at the grave but in fact this was the salvation of these children, who were far better dead... than being raised in this Canaanite culture."
Let me emphasize this: According to leading Christian apologist William Lane Craig, children are "far better dead" than they would be if they were raised in a culture that doesn't believe the same things as William Lane Craig.