Perizzites, huh? Think we still have a lot of those in modern-day religion. So, yeah, I believe Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, and Creflo Dollar come to mind, as examples that could use a little destroying.

The Bible and the Catholic / Protestant followers are both full of hate, distrust, and anger towards others not of their faith. That all religions (in the case of your quotes -- pre-Jews) have slaughtered people in the name of their gods should not be surprising.

there are still a lot of fundamentalists who believe in that insanity & still lots of people suffering b/c of them.

Cite stuff like that to ANY Fundie Faithfool/s and you'll get the response, " But that is the Old Testament, the Old Covenant with God, it no longer counts since we now have a NEW Covenant, the NEW Testament, with Jesus."
When I get that response my immediate reply is, " So you can also ignore and reject the Command of this God of yours where it clearly states, Any person who deems to remove, erase or alter my words as set down within this book, my Holy Words/Bible, shall be seen as denying me, rejecting me and being blasphemous unto me,,,,etc, etc."
99.999% of the time it STOPS them completely in their tracks.

Jebus-ites????

The dislike is for the quoted scripture, not the post. I'm always confused by the negative emojis, I assume the poster gets credit for them regardless of what they are. If not, my apologies.

At any rate, I remember back in my evangelical daze, reading stuff like this un-ironically and un-critically. It was, after all, talking about some obviously guilty and wicked people from Long Ago, and so didn't conflict with god's love and mercy. I think part of why the compartmentalization works so well is the seeming remoteness of the account, back in the mists of history. It's like reading about the Battle of Helm's Deep, it just doesn't have a moral connection to the present day. It's easy to justify it on the basis that they had it coming, because you don't relate empathetically to them as humans, you don't bother to imagine the injustice of someone coming into your home and ripping your pregnant wife open when you personally had nothing to do with your society's decision to not worship this alien Jewish war-god.

Of course, all of this also works because Christian fundamentalism teaches corporate / societal / tribal / familial guilt, the notion that if you sin, your punishment falls not just on you, but on the next 7 generations; that it falls on your nation and by association on you, even if you did not personally participate in what your nation is guilty of, etc. This crazy idea is just accepted as normal without a single critical thought. Because god commands it, and commands things consistent with it. All the mayhem commanded in the quoted verses above is based on national guilt / sin, which is basically, not being Jewish, or more generically, on being the Other.

Why does God constantly need people to do His dirty work?

It's almost as if he can't do the dirty work Himself because He doesn't exist...

Gotta love the god of the Old Testament, eh?

One of the worst fiction people wrote!

No

But, he's a loving god. Ya think that god would'a realized that he created an inferior being and have some compassion. The bastard.

Lovely