[SeekAndFind]

I think what troubles a lot of People is God using His people — THE ISRAELITES to do the dirty job of killing men, women and children.

If you were to ask me to do it, I wouldn’t have the heart to actually act ( of course, this will get me into trouble with the Almighty).

Not sure if it would have been more acceptable to men like Dawkins had God simply destroyed the Canaanites the same way He did with Sodom and Gomorah instead of commanding His people to do the killing.

[super7man]

Or the flood....

[Sans-Culotte]

If you were to ask me to do it, I wouldn’t have the heart to actually act ( of course, this will get me into trouble with the Almighty).

You and I probably would not today, but back in "the Bible Days" life was a lot tougher and so were the people. Think of the order Saul gave to David to kill 200 Philistines and bring back their foreskins. Yikes! That was a pretty bloody time.

[Karliner]

From what I've read about the Canaanites they did some very terrible things. It is a harsh order to kill everyone including their animals. Dawkin's picks and chooses and has good points but denying the wholly love of God and also denying the "in place of" god of Lucifer will always pose humanitarian questions that pull on our heart strings. Can any one person be completely evil?

As I've observed, yes.

Can a whole group be evil? yes.

A whole people? Millions upon millions have been killed in the last century for a variety of reasons...like you however, I've no idea if I could kill babies. I'm pro life but I've also seen a lot of evil people that are evil to the core.

I'm just glad I wasn't a part of that decision. However, if you asked me to kill a person who has done evil and continues to do so with zero repentance then I could do that. Dawkins might be reminded the story of Jonah and the Ninevites. He preached all out death on the whole people and they repented and God spared all of them for a hundred years.