Why is belief in a higher power required?

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God's punishment after He judged them evil, they had lead some of Israel to worship false gods.

Since fraudo has repeatedly proven less than up to the task, perhaps you can explain to me how infants and children can be evil enough to deserve being slaughtered en masse. Go into detail about how they must have certainly been complicit in whatever crime God deemed them worthy of violent and painful death.

Those children died to punish the parents, God is justly returning a horror, those children do have eternal life with God, who said God allowed the innocent children and infants to suffer, not scripture.

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God's punishment after He judged them evil, they had lead some of Israel to worship false gods.

And the punishment he chose looks reasonable to you? Seems highly unlikely they were all involved in leading some Israelites astray, and how come the Israelites are not held accountable for being so gullible?

Whatever you think of their crime - virgin sex slaves? Really? That's a moral position you support? What am I saying support? That's a moral position you worship.

It's just in the sight of the omniscient God who knows the hearts of all people, so yes it's reasonable. They were all guilty of sin, and like I said God knows their hearts and all of them were worshiping a false God, you know the ones made of wood, stone or metal. You can believe this, they were, if you would read and study scripture you would see it right there in plain English.
Now you are the one making a claim from scripture so prove they were to be used as sex slaves, just show us the passages that say they were sex slave or that they were raped, you made this claim defend it, you do have a Bible do you not, if not there are Bibles on the net.