[tasty_freeze]

> God is love, this is a simple truth found in scripture

I'm not sure which scripture you are talking about. If you are talking about the Abrahamic line of scripture, you can find anything you want, as Shakespeare famously said. Because you are apparently a good person, you focus on the positive aspects of the message, and that is great.

But there are people who focus on different parts of the scripture, or interpret the same passages in a different way, that lead to injustice and suffering. The fact that there are so many religious denominations reading the same documents but coming to different understandings shows that this message is anything but simple.

Famously, the Torah describes God's special relationship with his chosen people. Many people love to take excerpts from this as God's universal truths, but in fact these were only for the Jewish people. God had no problem commanding them to commit rape and genocide against out-groups. The claim that "God is love" is true only if you erase large parts of that document, or redefine "love" to be whatever God has commanded there.

[tsol]

>these were only for the Jewish people. God had no problem commanding them to commit rape and genocide against out-groups.

..and when exactly did God command Jewish people to rape? This comment is very strange

[tasty_freeze]

I'm not one to memorize Bible passages, but I believe there are a few places where the Israelite were told to lay waste to other tribes, though they could keep the virgins for themselves.

This is the first I found via google, I'm sure you can find more:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+31%3A7-...

“Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 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.