Don’t forget, the apple of God’s eyes David. Under your pacifist take on God, David should be condemned. When David conquered the Moabites he made them all lie down, measured them off with a length of a cord and every two lengths a person was killed. Every third length a person was allowed to live and were under David’s command, became subject to them and brought tribute to their conqueror. What does prophecy have to do with this? Yes a bit of condemnation of God towards the Moabites was used through David but on a strategic matter made the aspect of revenge moot since if you destroy the next generation and they become under your thumb what is left. Kill every man, woman, child etc... David/Joshua should be roasting under your take.
Yet your self righteous pacifist warped view of God is asking this same God that allowed all this violence to condemn people who practice in "waterboarding" Go figure.
Our intelligence agents are not torturing people for the fun of it or promoting the “power of their religion”. They are gathering information so we can defend ourselves from those wishing harm on us.
What did Jesus mean when He told His disciples to sell their cloak and buy a sword? Jesus knew while He was on earth everyone around Him were protected by God. You see Jesus mission was to be Crucified, not conquer. Once Jesus’s mission was complete that protection was lifted and the disciples now had to use earthly means to protect themselves. In short Jesus promoted self defense.
What Jesus did not promote was using His name to establish earthly kingdoms by the sword. You live by the sword you die by them. Crusades were one of many reminders of this.
Please take your elementary view of God and let the grown ups handle those who wish to slaughter the people who believe in Yahweh. God allows us to defend ourselves, sorry but torturing people to gather information to defend our freedom to we can continue to spread Christianity is not a ticket to hell.
Hard to fulfill the prophecy of spreading God's word to all the ends of the earth when you are living under Sharia law don't you think?
You have no clue what this means.
your elementary view of God
Unintentional irony alert.