Why is belief in a higher power required?

[Ryantology]

Which claims do you need me to clarify?

Your claims that the biblical text says the opposite of what it reads. It says that God is just. You say the opposite. Yet you provide no evidence in support.

Killing people who did not commit the crime they are being sentenced for is precisely the opposite of justice. I claim the Bible says one thing and shows another because this one of many examples proves it.

I keep asking you to justify killing infants and children and you have repeatedly refused to attempt this, which makes it sound an awful lot like you're avoiding a fact too obvious to even attempt to explain.

So, again: explain what conditions made it just and righteous to order soldiers to slaughter the entire population in retaliation for a transgression that almost none of them participated in. I want you to explain why you believe it is not disproportionate retribution.

No, it’s actually you who does that, I do value truth, and I have a moral obligation to do so.

If you do, then your standard for what qualifies as truthful stopped developing at about the age of 4.