[The Green Goblin]

The Catholic position is even more solid. The Church has determined that Revelation closed with the death of the last Apostle. Moreover, the Church, as the living Body of Christ, must be the final arbiter regarding the validity of private revelation. Private revelation must conform to both Scripture and Church teaching. Therefore, a Catholic would be obliged to disregard a revelation which commanded murder. The Church regards the circumstances regarding the slaughter of the Canaanites as special, as described above.

Hardly. History clearly demonstrates that the Catholic Churches' ethics have been as morally relative as God's.

[jimt]

History clearly demonstrates that the Catholic Churches' ethics have been as morally relative as God's.

I think you mean "the God purportedly described in the Bible".

Personally I find the "God" of the old testament very hard to swallow as a supreme being. More like a petulant tyrant.

But that doesn't preclude there being a "real" God, who wasn't morally relative.