The previous selection presents a religious book as a manifesto for religious war. Not persuasion but eradication. Forget preaching and logic. Kill!

At the beginning it offers the view that once non-believers have fulfilled their use, they can be killed. How charming! Unbelievers are less than believers. You can, if you choose, lie to them with impunity. How nasty and small minded.

Why should any God be nasty and amall minded? Where are the ethics here? Religious people constantly tell me, much to my annoyance, that ethics come from religion. Hardly!

Surely a superbeing (God) does not need to employ human armies to command puny humans? What if the pagans were civilised, tolerant and kindly? Are they to be therefore compared to religious obsessed murderers?