Why did God murder children for making fun of a bald guy?

[Esquilax]

This involves the implicit claim: "the welfare of thinking beings is Good." Where does Goodness reside? In God, of course. Where else would it be? Floating around in space?

Goodness is a concept, it has no physical existence, and so this entire line of argument is utterly vapid.

God's moral pronouncements are the enunciations of the laws of equilibrium. If you deviate from equilibrium, there are corrective consequences. It is an essentially causal operation. If you let go of a ball in mid air, it will fall.

None of that means anything. Listen, it's a simple question: do god's moral pronouncements have some practical reasoning behind them, that affect human beings, or not?