One thing i just can't get over in the bible is the way god commands his people to slaughter every man, woman and child when they take a town. [Spirituality & Religion]

That's not true. God only commanded them to do that like 2 times. That was because the people were so corrupt, these people were sacrificing babies to Baal, and burning them alive on a red hot Statue. They actually found the grave site with thousands of baby skeletons. Why save the women?there was no point in saving the women. You think the women would forget about killing their men? It had to be done.

It’s interesting that you should ask this question of people lived thousands and thousands of years ago. Atheists of the last century and this century have no compunction of slaughtering thousands of women and children. Just read the life of Mao or Stalin or Pol Pot.

Why are you obsessed with these things which happened thousands of years ago another obsessed with the atrocities that are going on today? Why are you not looking at the commands of Jesus to love your neighbour as yourself and to love your enemies? Why are you obsessed with these things and not with things that apply today? The disciples in the new Testament conquered the Roman world purely on nonviolence. Why don’t you investigate them rather than going back 4000 years

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Pikachu, You don't realize that God chose his own people and the other nations were murderers and rapists. They worshipped Molek and sacrificed their own children. God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy.

it's called anathema.