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Originally Posted by blazey

I was brought up being told 'thou shal not kill' and there are no double standards in that teaching,

Really blazey? Who laid down the 10 Commandments? It was that God feller wasn’t it?

Then how do you equate that with God allegedly parting the Red Sea waters to allow the Israelites across and then closing them on the Egyptian army and drowning them?
How about when he ‘smote’ down the Israelites for creating a false god during their exodus from Egypt?
God allegedly told Joshua to attack Jericho, Ty and other cities, slay all the inhabitants and to take the land for his tribe.
God himself exacted retribution on the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah and on Lot.
Then there was the flood (created by God) that alegedly wiped out all life save for that on the Ark.

The Old Testament is full of killings by God.

There is nothing quite like doing a bit of ‘cherry picking’ to support a non-argument.