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Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 09:47 PM by onager
But for future reference...stolen from the Skeptics Annotated Bible, of course:
Genesis 18:32 - God kills the entire populations of Sodom and Gomorrah. Except the Lot family, but then he gets pissed at Mrs. Lot and turns her into a pillar of salt. God was willing to spare the cities if Lot could find "10 righteous people," but apparently they couldn't find any righteous newborns, infants or toddlers.
Exodus 12:29 - God kills all the firstborn Egyptian children.
Numbers 16:41-50 - God apparently kills an entire tribe, about 250 people. The Israelites bitch about it, and God sends them a nice plague, increasing the body count to 14,700. God takes religious criticism about as well as some DU'ers...:-)
Numbers 31:1-54 - Slaughter of the Amalekites. Sayeth God: "Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Deuteronomy 2:33-36 - Slaughter of Sihon and his tribe. Gawd's people brag that they "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain."
Deuteronomy 20:16-17 - God's instructions on dealing with the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites: "Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth...as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee."
And on and on and on...
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