If he thinks OT violence is a clinching argument then he has not read the OT or he has not understood what he read.
If he thinks OT violence is a clinching argument then he has not read the OT or he has not understood what he read.
Exactly.
I'm one who is perfectly fine with God's command to the invading Israelites to obliterate the Canaanites. In its proper time. (The proper time is not now. The Israelite theocracy was unique, not to be repeated.)
"Leave alive nothing that breathes."