This assumes genocide is a bad thing, but think about it...it's very practical. For example, I'm a farmer in my village, and my village and the neighboring village have been competing over the same land for generations, there have been murders, -blam!-s, all that. Well, finally, my village decides to have enough of this "forever war" over finite resources, so we decide to end it once and for all. We attack, and kill them, man, woman and child. Why do I kill a man who I've struggled with? So he won't compete with me over farmland and so I can feed my family. Why do I kill his family? So his children do not compete with mine. I kill his son so that mine won't have to fight. Very practical.

Lots of "no" votes. Tough to imagine a human being doing more despicable things than the Christian God has done.

Okay, so, there are three genocides committed in the bible, and the genocides seem to be what most people are bringing up. So, I can see why God did each of these in the bible, even though I've barely read it. So, there's the city in Abraham's time. God destroyed that city because there was r Ape, murder, stealing, and overall evil. The evil there couldn't be undone without doing insidious and equally horrible things to the humans in order to cleanse them, and it would restrict their free will. God however, would have spared the city of his angels could have found five pure people. Only five, in an entire city. They had a hard time finding three, if I remember correctly. Then there's the Flood (Which I personally can't decide if it happened or not. I feel this bit may have been edited in by the Church, but moving on...), which wiped the world of humanity. It was basically the city before, except on a world-wide scale. All the same things were happening, and Noah's family were untouched by the evil. Now, some of you ask, "How can you justify killing pregnant women, children?" And, that's because the women were corrupted by the same evil, and so were the children. The unborn children probably were spared a life of poverty or tyrannical evil. Let's say... 20% of those unborn children were conceived by R Ape, for arguments sake. This day in age, would most if not all of those children be aborted, leaving them to the same fate? And even if they weren't aborted today, if anyone found out they would be treated like dirt, and live an incredibly hard life. And those children would be seeded with the same evil that the living have. And the Egyptians... well, all they had to do was let the Israelites leave, and they wouldn't. If someone asks why He didn't try a peaceful solution, He did. And that solution was called Jesus, according to Christianity. Jesus died for our sins because he saw the killing as harsh, and he had a solution because of his existence. He sacrificed himself by being crucified so that we wouldn't have to face another reckoning, or another genocide. And now some of you would say, "If God is All Powerful, he could make it where those things couldn't happen." But, he made man have completely free will, if he restricted all of those, he would restrict free-will. He also built a universe with specific rules for his creations so that they could create things like science, and understand it all. So, while he is beyond these rules, his creations for that specific universe must abide by those rules. And if he wanted to create something with separate rules, (1+1=3, Physics are completely different, etc...) he could create another universe or dimension. To those who ask why he won't fix our problems of today, such as natural disasters, cancer, and all of that... That's because it's our job. He wants to intervene as little as possible unless it's necessary, such as the world going to complete crap. Any questions? TL; DR: Go read it. There is no paraphrase.

Of course, I don't understand how anyone could defend or justify this monster!

If I had God's power, I would change a lot of things. If I had his wisdom, I wouldn't.

Circle of hell will 46 percent of the people here land in?

Gods aren't real. The idea of them is very real, however.

Yes.

Step 1: Think you understand Christianity Step 2: Pick "yes"

Oh come on he killed the canonized which were really bad people I mean if you came across them you would of done the same and considering how long he has been around he hasn't done too many things when compared to what a lot of what you do

Our pasta, who art in a colander. Draining be thy noodles. Thy noodle come, thy sauce be yum. On top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our Garlic Bread, And forgive our indulgences, As we forgive those who make reality TV. And lead us not into vegetarianism, But deliver us some pizza, For thine is the Meatball, The Noodle, and the Sauce, Forever and ever. RAmen

Pretty much anyone who hasn't committed genocide because he was feeling edgy should tick "yes".

Indians believe their parents to be an extension of god

Yes I am morally superior to a fictitious character in the ramblings of a madman.

None of us are, no matter what you say.