(October 23, 2014 at 6:05 pm)Christian Wrote:(October 23, 2014 at 5:57 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: How exactly does killing children, prevent harm to innocents?
The Canaanites practiced child sacrifice, temple prostitution, and likely demon worship. The chances are very high that their society was riddled with STDs, violence, and vice. Surely it was merciful for God to cut off such nations. Would anyone want to grow up in a society where they would likely be born with an STD, some of their siblings murdered as "sacrifices" (possibly to demons) by their parents, and violence rampant?
By slaughtering CHILDREN!
Yeah, that makes sense.
So, to prevent their parents sacrificing children - for which there is NO evidence - to demons, Yahweh decided to murder them for his own benefits.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"