Religion
In reply to the discussion: The human mind is a pale reflection of the Creator. [View all]malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)According to the Old Testament he ordered Canaan be ethnically cleansed:
In Joshua 6:20-21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
In Deuteronomy 2:32-35, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children.
In Deuteronomy 3:3-7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan.
In Numbers 31
-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war.
In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites men, women, children, infants, and their cattle for something the Amalekites ancestors had done 400 years earlier.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15-18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant.
I could continue...