Simply put, there is nothing, can be nothing, that ever justifies the murder of a child. Yet the Christian god has murdered children since the dawn of time.
In 1 Samuel 15:3, for example, Yahweh sends his prophet Samuel to the city of Amalek, with clear instructions: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
“Infant and suckling.” Oh, my. The fate of the children of Amalek was no isolated instance. Yahweh already had quite a track record when it came to the murder of children.
Consider the story of Abraham, one of the patriarchs of the Old to prove to this sadistic deity that he loved him enough to commit infanticide.
And for this, Abraham is revered by Christians, many of whom are parents. The irony is hard to miss. Consider, too, the flood—Yahweh’s punishment for a man who he supposedly created and who he now deemed unworthy to live because of their sin and decadence.