Grrr. I should have copied before I clicked post. Lost it--and I'm sure it was better than what I'll manage now. Will see what I can redo.
1) 98% is NOT UTTER ANIHILATION.
2) When God does it, not a single soul survives. Sometimes, not even a single livestock critter survives.
3) Some Christians have felt led in recent decades to go to various Native American tribes and repent for the evil the whites did to them centuries ago.
4) Similarly, some Native American tribes have initiated or responded in kind for the evil they did to the whites.
5) As a result, great healing, release of resources and other healing miracles have occurred. God loves reconciliation, healing, restored relationships.
6) Regardless of whether an individual or group acknowledges the God above all God's or not--God has His standards. And, He holds all creation to His standards.
7) Given the example of the God-Man Christ, we no longer have any excuse for His standard of Sacrificial Love; doing unto others; Loving God wholly and others as ourselves. Thankfully, He enables what He requires--though He does require our cooperatioan in the enableling.
8) WE ARE ALL SUBJECT TO THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF:
REAPING WHAT WE SOW.
It was true in white/Native interactions. It's true in our families and work relationships. It's just true.
9) I stand by my earlier post. God tends to reserve utter anihilation for those who are wholesale blood-thirsty, vengeful, brutally harsh--especially upon innocents etc. . . those who know and vigorously, persistently rebell against His standards. Especially, those who spill innocent blood.
10) Yes, micro-biology had a part in tribes being devastated. It would be interesting to me to go back and compare the degree of devastation with their degree of ruthlessness. I would suspect a correlation.
11) You don't sound like you are overly aware of or concerned about God's standards. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Perhaps you haven't noticed. At some point, you will be more than a little invited to be aware of, respect and own a much greater reverential awe of God. Scripture in the KJV says that the reverential awe "Fear of God" is the BEGINNING of wisdom. You will be invited to become wiser. I hope you take the opportunity.
That's the way the universe has been structured. I didn't happen to build the universe and don't understand all of it ~ or, in fact, even a very small part of it very well.
Now, when you get a 90% level of destruction of any particular human population, and you figure 40% of almost any population (before antibiotics) are young children, you end up with quite a few innocents being killed.
God doesn't kill people.
Germs kill people. People kill people. Accidents kill people.
If you wish to argue your theological position, there are threads where that is appropriate.