What a delightfully genocidal turn this thread has taken. It must take a very special mind to consider the wholesale slaughter of entire populations and label it as good and merciful. Either one that is blind to the consequences of the stories it's defending, or else an alternative too terrible to contemplate.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'