It isn't a matter of 'guilt'...
The word you used was "innocent". So how is it not a matter of guilt?
NIV Psalms 79:8
Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
NIV Jeremiah 31:29-30 29. "In those days people will no longer say, `The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
30. Instead, everyone will die for his own sin; whoever eats sour grapes--his own teeth will be set on edge.
So...are you supporting my argument or opposing it? Or is it, as I have suspected for some time, that you don't really give a rip whether a biblical quote supports an argument you are making, as long as you can dilute a thread with biblical diarrhea
You CANNOT be unaware of the fact that nits grow up to be lice.
This phrase is credited to Col. John M. Chivington, of the Colorado Volunteers, in order to encourage one of his men to put a bullet thru a non-christian infant's head, as ordered. I have to agree with you that this certainly sounds like a creationist sentiment to me.
It was COMMON practice in those days to eliminate the 'children' of whoever you conquered, lest they bitterly mature and rise up against you.
I don't much care what common practice was, this discussion is about what the infallible moral and scientific guide: the bible, said.
Notice the termoil in the MiddleEast today because the Israelites of old did NOT finish off the 'sinners' of their day!
As I remember, Islam is a younger religion than christianity. Which sinners would it be that God wanted the israelites to mass murder the children of? All of them?
Dead babies... You don't like what's in the Book either; do you?
Why do I have to defend what is there?
You have made your choice, so live with it, as I will with mine.