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You dodged the question, O. And in doing so, proved my point.

God himself says that He is love. God kills people, sometimes in ways that trouble us as we look at things from our limited human viewpoint. Whose viewpoint is correct?

OWK insists that his is. God giggles.

(Full Disclosure: I have no idea if God has actually giggled at OWK. He hasn't told me about this one way or the other. I suppose I'm saying that if I were God, I would be giggling at OWK right now.)

Ok... Let's grant the supposition that God is love. But let's also recognize the fact that God teaches us what love is both in law, and in parable, throughout the Bible. And as such, we understand that it is immoral to steal, and to murder, and to intentionally cause harm to another, and to punish innocents.

And yet we are expected to believe that when GOD does these things, it is somehow moral?

We are expected to believe that God turns a flood loose on the world, and drowns all of it's children, and that this is somehow moral?

We are expected to believe that God looses plagues, disease, and pestilence on the innocent children of Egypt, and that this is somehow moral?

We are expected to believe that he tortures and disfigures Job in some sado-masochistic side-bet with Satan, and that this is somehow moral?

We are expected to believe that he demands the willingness to cut the throat of one's own son in a test of fealty, and that this is somehow moral?

Who are you trying to kid?

Yourself?

These things are objectively and unquestionably evil.

And because you are unwilling to apply the fundamental scrutiny of reason to these questions, you simply state without justification, that God has a different standard of morality than we mere mortals do... and it isn't to be questioned.

Then again, I guess there's really nothing else you CAN do.

(Full Disclosure: I have no idea if God has actually giggled at OWK. He hasn't told me about this one way or the other. I suppose I'm saying that if I were God, I would be giggling at OWK right now.)

Somehow, I can't imagine God giggling. A full-throated belly laugh, a wry chuckle, an exasperated, "Why Me?" -- these I can imagine. But somehow, I can't imagine God making any exclamation or outburst that would involve Him climbing the scales.