Thank you, Simeon, for answering. Let me repeat the verse: “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

Jews and the Christians are not killing today, and these orders are from “centuries ago”, so let’s overlook their apparent cruelty. Did I get you right?
To “rid the area of pagans” and “establish His Dominion”, murder of infants and Children is kosher. It “might have been saving the children from eternal damnation”. That was an act of mercy, you think?
Murder of infants and Children is fine if it is to “rid the area of pagans” and “establish His Dominion”. That is not being cruel to the infants and children because it “might have been saving the children from eternal damnation”. You try to pass it off as God’s justice.
My “finite human comprehension” considers killing “infants and children” to “save them” unequivocally and unambiguously evil. I wonder why doesn’t yours.
I assume, the quote suggesting that the infants and children were murdered as an act of revenge, is from the bible. Their parents were punished because their sword “hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless”.
To my “finite human comprehension” killing “infants and children” to punish their parents is much more than cruel and savage. It is downright evil.
Unabashedly, you then say it is the Quran that is from the devil. That is an article of faith for you, it seems. One cannot argue with blind faith.
You seem confused. Were the infants and children killed to “save” them from “eternal damnation”, or was it revenge against their parents? The former could be misconstrued as mercy. The later, was without a question an unbridled act of cruelty and a savage revenge.
The message I get is that God as Jesus is merciful, while Jesus as God is vengeful. Maybe I am confused, not you. I apologize!
There still remains one other mystery. Were the “camels and donkey” ordered killed as an act of mercy or that of revenge? Surely, those hapless animals did not cause the believing she-camels and the believing she-donkeys to remain childless.
Clever or not, “people like me” do have a problem. Our comprehension is human and finite, but our attempts to comprehend are labeled infantile, and our curiosity is quashed by calling it “judging God”, placing ourselves above God, and “second guessing” Him.

Because you said, “except for the verse you keep repeating”, implying that there is only one such verse, I shall quote another one. Actually there are scores of such egregious verses. Perhaps, even hundreds.

“Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” Numbers 31: 17-18

Hard to even begin to comment on that one, don’t you think? It isn’t mercy, nor revenge!