Sodom and Gomorrah deserved it, it was made clear in that by Lot existing. Everyone in the flood also deserved it, apart from Noah which is why Noah was saved. The “children” weren’t innocent or else God wouldn’t have killed them.
“Good deities don’t intentionally cause pain and suffering. Unless it’s God, in which case mass genocide and killing children is perfectly justified.”
Judging from all your other replies in this thread, your stance is that:
- Good deities don’t cause pain and suffering.
- God did, but he was justified because they were all evil.
- Maybe he killed a bunch of innocent people too, but he sent them to heaven, so it’s fine.
That’s some olympic-level mental gymnastics. I hope that, one day, you’ll think back to this discussion and realize your hypocrisy and free yourself from the religion of a god that has committed genocide multiple times, gatekeeps eternal life behind the worship of an evil entity and threatens all the others with eternal damnation for the only “sin” of not thinking like him.
Killing people is wrong, even if they are evil. It becomes even worse when it’s not a single homicide, but a large scale genocide of people whose majority (but not all) are evil.
Do you realize that you’re justifying genocide on the pretence that people you never knew “deserved it”?
God knew them though. And it wasn’t because of their race, but because of what they did.
Also, how was Sodom and Gomorrah ‘genocide’? It had nothing to do with race
You are living proof that religion is mental disorder and Abrahamic religions should be utterly abolished with extreme prejudice. You are the evil this world needs cleansing of.
In any genocide, the perpetrators always have a ‘reason’. They’ll always be able to tell you that the people that were killed deserved it, and that it needed to happen, and that the world is now better off etc. etc. But saying it and thinking it doesn’t make it true. God can spew out justification for genocide all day. But why would I just take the word of a murderer? Especially if they are a super-powerful being who no-doubt had all sorts of other options available to them. Why would I take their word that suffering and death and destruction is justified when it is done by them - but not by others? And God doesn’t even bother to attempt to explain or talk about that to me. I just hear it from you, and other fans… which makes it even less reliable.