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I would disagree as well. The Bible is full of accounts where God punishes the wicked. Either through divine things such as fire and brimstone (Sodom and Gommorah) and the flood. In several accounts he also showed his mercy in delaying judgement, or letting people like Lot try to ease up on the judgement (”What if I found 10 good people, then will you spare them?) He also used his people the Jews to clear out the Holy Land of evil by war and slaughter. And, when the Jews became wicked, He used the Babylonians to bring judgement on the Jews.

How God deals with the wicked and sinners after Jesus came and died is a whole different deal though I think. While Christians should be in the nations’ armies and protect their citizens, allies, etc. (like in the Crusades), the Christian viewpoint as a whole is not to exact judgement on evil people, but to attempt to save them. (Christianity as a group. It does not exclude a Christian from being a soldier, a sniper in a war, a prosecuting attorney, a Judge, etc.)

Of course to the Liberals they draw no distinction between a soldier serving his country and a suicide plane pilot crashing into the Twin Towers.

God, in the end, will enact a terrible period of “terror” on the wicked and evil that do not repent. As He should. (Which is different than indiscriminate terrorist attacks on innocent people.) He might even be carrying a sign that says “No Justice, No Peace”.

“Noah” was the fictional account of a real occurrence that was more limited in scope. Noah was the construct of priests in Babylon (from the JEDP construct) who drew upon the tale of Gilgamesh. The background for the tale of Gilgamesh has been proven by archaeological findings (and archeology has given us the location of Biblical cities of Jericho), and theses archaeological findings show that around 5,000 to 6,000 B.C. the world received around 10X as much rainfall as it does now, but meteorologically speaking the region of the world where the tale had its historical settings also had periods of drought that were followed by huge amounts of rainfall from time to time.

The person who actually lived and was chronicled in “Gilgamesh” lived at around 5-6,000 B.C. and preceded the writing of the book of Genesis by well over 3,500 years.