Was God a worse genocidal maniac than Adolf Hitler?

If you believe in God, then you believe that He is the supreme being of the universe, and as such, not subject to your judgment or logic or way of thinking. If you don't believe in God, then none of that happened and so why worry about it?

Perhaps we can wonder about the mentality of his followers as well. How many Christians do you know that seem to enjoy the thought of being rewarded while seeing others cast into eternal suffering? They are heartless and sadistic people who enjoy the thought of others suffering in agony. They laugh and say "We told you so! Hahaha!"

Greetings, John. This discussion might just become a war zone, hahaha. Indeed, the bible God is not really all about love. It is a vengeance-seeker, an evil-and-good God. It's just like most Gods in mythology. They had personalities, they were not perfect. They were not made purely from love. Gods in mythology were envious, fought one another, repented for what they had made, made lots of mistakes. And the biblical God seems to follow that path, as well. I believe it's because Yaveh / Jave God has a lot of other cultures in his story. You can see God ordering his followers to kill some, to enslave people, to love and to hate. It is quite confusing, isn't it? It's just a shame that not everybody is willing to discuss this so openly. They take God as a higher being and simply won't accept anything that would damage that idea. Respectfully.

"Is it better to be loved or feared?" That was the quote from history class that stuck with me for years. I tried to answer back then and never got it. Years later I found the true answer. It's best to be both. First you are feared, to spread the message quickly and to get followers, and then you are loved by those followers to keep them loyal. The followers use fear tactics (which they mistake to be love) to get others to join them. As time goes on they convince those they brought in that the message is love. This is the basis of Christianity. The Old Testament wasn't Christian at the time, but it was the word of fear. The New Testament (and the start of the Christian religion) was the switch to love. So it's done great to follow the model of fear and love equally. It's pretty messed up.

I'd certainly say that Heinrich Himmler was a bigger genocidal maniac than Hitler. As for God... Well the question doesn't arise, not in my mind anyway, as God doesn't exist. The Bible is a work of fiction, admittedly with some good teachings that we would be well advised to consider, but not to be taken too literally...

Remember that Religion is a sort of a company and God its CEO, That's pretty much how this thing works, like CEO of any company is a human who has to take decisions that benefit the company as a whole so does GOD. Yes God is supposed to be benevolent and all-forgiving! Then doesn't the concept of Hell clash with his persona? Yes and No! Yes because there shouldn't be a Hell and an equivalent of God in the negative ruling it. No because it would hurt the company ( people of the religion and the world )! Could you imagine the havoc it would wreck upon if every sinner was convinced that God would forgive him for his deeds?! Methods of persecution in this life are known, scary but most importantly they are not eternal ( you are hanged, you die, end of story )! But what of the sinners who are so hardcore that do not fear it( and there are such types, there have always been) ! God being portrayed as vengeful to those who hurt his children in any manner is a method of achieving it ( you being boiled in oil for the rest of eternity does scare the living hell out of you don't it, or at least more than the same thing done here on the plane of earth where you are a mortal ). Also those stories are fictional and just meant to convey the same message i just told. Religious texts are just meant to keep us all human. Since you can cheat a king and a country but not God, so it helps to instill that fact in all with these stories and keep them in line, keep them in peace.

@indexer God created this earth and everything on it.....He sent all of us a set of rules to follow...He gave us free will to choose to follow them or not... God also told us all what would happen to us if we followed him, and he also told us what would happen if we choose to not follow them.... You do not like the rules, so you call God names and rebel against him...What you are failing to understand is that this world belongs to God, and their is nothing you can say or do to change that fact....Even if we can not understand his reasons for doing some things..It does not mean that the reasons are not the right ones... God has always said that he hates Sin...and all through history when it gets way out of control he destroys it....The righteous are the ones that survive....The flood and Sodom and Gomorrah are perfect examples of it.... First Moses never entered the promised Land..... Second Aaron never entered the promised Land either... God made a promise to the descendants of Abraham. God always keeps his promise... The promised land was to be theirs. the Canaanites lived in wicked rebellion against the will and purposes of God. The Lord had predicted that Abraham's descendants would claim the land when "the sin of the Amorites" reached its "full measure" (Gen 15:16b). This "full measure" of sin was attained by the Canaanites in the generation leading to the Jewish conquest. the Promised Land belonged to God before the Canaanites established temporary residency there. It had always been his plan to give this land to the descendants of Abraham: "In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here" (Gen 15:16a). The Lord did not take from the Canaanites that which was "theirs"—he reclaimed that which was his according to his foreordained purposes. God also helped Joshua by causing a great earthquake, drying up the river, and crumbling the walls around the city..... another battle was between David and Goliath.... a young boy against a Giant.....

I could explain why God is not a genocidal maniac but I have my doubts if my dialogue would be very well received. The question presented in the title seems like it is not really a question at all but designed to be an introduction for the context of the post. The context demonstrates that the authors mind is already made up? @indexer

It seems you are inveterate atheist. Quite a lot of atheists ask the same questions. I can only say that you can't escape your fate. There is a predestination. If God is always kind, people may get used to it and do whatever they want without any moral principles. We can discuss for plenty of lines here on this topic, but i will limit myself with this answer