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Like you rarely hear anyone with serious power say we should invade countries because it’s what god wanted, and if we do they’re considered a hawkish nut.
Sometimes we elect them as president - twice!
The same reason people (ultrafascist xenophobic evangelicals, ie the majority of the US and 99.9% of all republicans) forgive god for his killing of innocents is the same reason they overlook, handwave, deny or just flat out ignore the killings done by the powerful; it’s cool and they like it. If a million Iraqis die for the “greater good” of statecraft, or a million children in Jericho, Sodom, Gomorrah, et al have to die, it’s because it’s cool and good and for a greater good.
To the evangelical, it’s unthinkable to even question the letter of the word, let alone criticise god. Different sects of Christianity are more tolerant or critical. To a lot of modern sects of Roman Catholicism, for instance, the old testament is more or less ignored as apocryphal.
