Mass Murdering, the Yahweh Way

THE RED SEA PARTS, AND THE NATION OF ISRAEL, knowing what's good for it, and never inclined to miss an opportunity, enters the dry breach and scampers across to safetly, while its pursuers are held in abeyance by a wall of fire. When the Hebrews are safely ensconced on the other side, the fire wall is quenched, and the Egyptian charioteers, themselves opportunists, resume their pursuit. Then the twin invisible dams burst, and the rest, as they say, is history. Biblical history, straight from God. Talk about having someone's back! Lost in all the excitement is the utter helplessness of the Egyptian service personnel. They who served, and did everything else, at the whimsical behest of Pharoah, himself rather almighty, relatively speaking. To his people, Pharoah was God. Beyond a mere dictator; God. He owned his nation, and his people, like no other mere mortal ever has, or, it is to be hoped, ever shall again. The charioteers who drowned at the hand of a greater God had less power of self determination than even an American Marine recruit in boot camp, and that's going some. Just following orders, for real. So, precisely what did they do to deserve a watery grave? Oh, God of Abraham, couldst thou have but released the waters BEFORE extinguishing the flame? Would it really have made that much of a difference vis a vis Jewish safety? By the time Pharoah's minions had built boats and boarded them, or circumnavigated the Red Sea, surely God's chosen would have been out of recah, and, even had they not been, the Lord surely could have devised yet more clever restraints, eh? And what a loss of fine horses! Hundreds, if not thousands of fine young healthy men, in the prime of life, sacrificed only becasue of Pharoah's stubborn pride, and, so it would seem, God's lack of compassion and restraint. (military servicemen tend to be young healthy, and full of future potential). And were all the plagues upon Egypt really necessary? Death to all the firstborn? Really? Defenseless infants? Talk about victimization! Any all powerful God capable of creating a universe surely couodhahve changed, softened Phaoroah's heart by some other means; a good stiff shot of endorphines, perhaps. In a court of law with an impartial jusry, Jehovah would be at risk to exposure to a mass murder rap. But, alas, the last thing the Bible is, is impartial.