- slew/smite/destroy/wipe-out/kill - as if there's anything particularly problematic about God doing that.
Anyone who believes that
eternal punishment is an ethically appropriate response for what can only be
temporal crimes is morally bankrupt themselves.
Anyone who believes that any sort of greater good or increased utility is served by punishing crimes like theft, or adultery, or worshiping the wrong deity with death is similarly ethically bankrupt.
There
is something
extremely problematic with "God" or anyone or anything else killing/smiting/torturing/cursing/whatever. There is precisely one ethical model under which such punishments are appropriate: authoritarianism. Literally, might makes right, and God is right to do whatever he wants because he's God and you don't get to question it, period. It's wrong for you to rape and murder, unless God tells you to, in which case you're morally obligated to do so. It's perfectly fine for God to afflict a good man with disease, murder in cold blood everyone he loves for having committed no crime, and generally be a dick just to see if one of the victims will continue to worship him, because he's got a bigger stick than you, and what are you going to do about it?
That sort of ethical reasoning is absurd on it's face, and anyone with a half-developed conscience should be able to tell.
iano supports
genocide, as long as God is doing it.
Genocide is a monstrous act and can only be tolerated by a monster regardless of circumstances.
Therefore, iano is a fucking unethical monster.