> The Israelites, and we all, are taught through these wars the consequences of being an enemy of God.

So an omniscient, omniportent god can find no other way to teach his people other than by slaughtering innocents and sending them, as you say, into eternal torment?

I know you don't agree, but could you at least try and make the effort to see why someone looking at this from the outside would be just a little bit put off by it?