(June 16, 2024 at 3:10 am)Lucian Wrote: Wondering what people think of a simple response that the bombing in World War Two was to force Germany to surrender. The old testament wasn’t that as there seem to have been many small city states. I guess you could say that it was to force the other cities to surrender and leave the land. Not convinced with my response. Anything better?
WWII bombing was not aimed at annihilation, but OT campaigns are often exactly that, take the wimmenfolk as sex-slaves, bash out baby brains, and so on.
While WWII bombing was brutal and criminal in human terms, it was certainly well within godly terms of "this is how we deal with miscreants." Anyone pointing to human war crimes to excuse their god's own action is implicitly acknowledging that their own god's acts are indeed crimes.
