Why is belief in a higher power required?

[Esquilax]

Pray tell, what were you doing at church, my love?

There was a meeting for my charity being held in the back.

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.

You don't think people suffer when they're murdered, GC? Do you know what it feels like to be stabbed? I mean, I'm assuming these children died by the sword, but it doesn't matter; stabbing hurts. I know this to be true. It's as far from pleasant as one could imagine. So's being bludgeoned, or burned... any way of dying, really. That's why we don't like being violently killed.

Why do I even have to explain this to you?

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.

I looked it up. Now, given that it's the bible and it sort of does what you guys do today, and dresses up atrocities in more pleasant language as if that's an excuse, but here:

11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

So, to be clear: kill the men, non virgin women and children, and keep the virgins. Kind of a clear implication anyway. But then, these kidnapped survivors of a genocidal slaughter are given away like the property of their kidnappers to be "wives" to strangers. I doubt that's what they wanted.

So indentured servants, as well as sex slaves. Yes, that does make it better, doesn't it?

No doubt you will scrabble to retain your blindness here; you may be tempted to argue that since the scripture doesn't specifically use the word "rape," then they weren't, and that they wanted to be given away like chattel, the spoils of war from a murderous conflict that destroyed everything they had ever known. I will not argue against such idiocy, but will in fact leave you to wallow in your callow ignorance, if that is the path in which you wish to indulge.

I do hope for something more interesting from you, however.