I've read the transcripts from the Nuremburg Trials and agree that there were many unforgivable atrocities committed. I also believe that not enough of the offenders were given the justice they deserved, but I have as close personal friends Germans who suffered at the hands of the Nazi's and the Allied bombers. You might be able to rationalize the killing of civilian noncombatants, but I can't. For the record I think the actions taken against the Canaanites at the hands of Joshua were every bit as heinous and reprehensible as those committed by the SS and Gestapo.
“For the record I think the actions taken against the Canaanites at the hands of Joshua were every bit as heinous and reprehensible as those committed by the SS and Gestapo.”
The Canaanite worhsipped the demon Ba’al Hammon/Moloch.
He is now know as “Beelzebub” in English.
The religion involved boiling infant children in their mother’s milk and burning infant children alive, so as to best mock life and G-d.
If you distrust the Jewish account in the Bible, look at what Plato said in The Republic as:
There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Moloch, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier. Thus it is that the ‘grin’ is known as ‘sardonic laughter,’ since they die laughing.
Or the Romans, like Diodorus Siculus who wrote:
There was in their city a bronze image of Moloch extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.
Diodorus went on to states that family members of the burning children were forbidden to weep and that when defeated, the nobles believed they had displeased the gods by substituting low-born children for their own children. They attempted to make amends by sacrificing 200 children of the best families at once, and in their enthusiasm actually sacrificed 300 children.
Plutarch wrote in De Superstitiones 171:
... the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.
So do you still object to G-d’s instructions to destroy this civilization? Clearly should have followed instructions.