[Dan Cooper]

Shedding innocent blood is one of the few things that God says He hates. One of the very few. And it doesn't matter whether you do it with abortion, a bomb, or a baseball bat.

Joshua at Jericho?

The bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved more Japanese lives than they took. Not to mentioned the many American lives saved and the prisoners and slaves freed from at least another year of oppression.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Jericho was a miracle action. God knocked down the walls, right? And God has the legitimate power of life and death over every living creature. (Something which we do not have.) God even has the authority to tell Abraham to slit the throat of his innocent son. (But then wouldn't let him do it.)

So if God wanted to, He could have shed innocent blood by consuming Hiroshima with earthquake, tsunami, meteor strike. He is sovereign.

But it is clear and explicit from Scripture, verbatim, what God Himself finds abominable.

Deuteronomy 19:10
Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 19:13
You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

Proverbs 6:16-17
These things the Lord hates: ...haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood.

Jeremiah 19:4
For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hands of their oppressors those who have been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Joel 3:19
But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Joel 3:21
Shall I leave the shedding of innocent blood unpunished? No, I will not."

And many other words of the Lord terrible and unmistakable.

Understand that I do not consider myself to be morally superior to Paul Tibbets or to anyone else. People do terrible things goaded by terrible circumstances. I just think the voice of God must be heard, though we hate like hell to hear it.

I bow my head as one who has no reason to boast.