[metmom]

What would have been better is if God would have slashed everyone's Achilles tendons so they couldn't swim at all. That would have been brilliant and right up his alley. What I wonder is what it sounds like to hear all those babies and children crying for help from their parents. That's got to be like going to the symphony for God-- just sitting back and listening with a big smile on his face.

I guess if you want a reason to hate God you have to make stuff like that up.

[GraniteStateConservative]

What exactly is a mischaracterization?

Would you drown your children like God drowned his children?

I’m serious. Why does that not bother you? It’s certainly not an elegant way to destroy the world. God could do that with a blink of his eye— no suffering or pain, just everyone gone in a puff of smoke instantly. We don’t drown death row inmates because we view it as cruel and unusual punishment. It’s a very violent way to die.

And, for a God who alleges to prize free will, how does killing all those children and babies fit with that? If God is saying that the children of the wicked will always be wicked, then we all better start up a Free Republic abortion clinic because there are a lot of wicked people having babies that need to be destroyed. I’m pro-life and find God’s glib destruction of civilization impossible to accept as the act of anyone with any love in his heart, much less the “infinite love” God supposedly has. That doesn’t even include things like killing off Job’s 10 kids as a part of a bet with the Devil of all people. God has a total disregard for our lives. He has a total disregard for your life.