Genocide in the Old Testament

[InevitableCheese]

I believe Christopher Hitchen's explains Christianity best when it is told be a celestial dictatorship. Just read this article explaining why the genocide of the Canaanites is okay, and necessary.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/just...s#comments

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For those of you who don't want Christian shit clogging your browser history:

1. As the maker of all things and the ruler of all people, God has absolute rights of ownership over all people and places.

2. God is not only the ultimate maker, ruler, and owner, but he is just and righteous in all that he does.

3. All of us deserve God’s justice; none of us deserve God’s mercy.

4. The Canaanites were enemies of God who deserved to be punished.

5. God’s actions were not an example of ethnic cleansing.

These factors combine to ensure that nothing like the destruction of the Canaanites—required for the theocracy of Israel to possess the physical land—is commissioned by God or is permissible for his people today.

7. The destruction of the Canaanites is a picture of the final judgment.

God has Creator rights, and no one can say to him, “What are you doing?”