A Brief History of Tomorrow, page-110

Jehovah's mercy is evident to all except the spiritually blind. Isn't that always the way and there are so many different forms of this spiritual blindness. The JW are blind in a different way than the Catholics and the Catholics are blind in a different way than the Jews, and so on, but the one thing they all share in common is that their kind of blindness is the one God recommends.

Where was god when a third of the Irish Catholics were caused to starve to death via an English act of Genocide? Where was god when Stalin allowed the Ukrainians to die in their millions. What about Mao and Pol Pot and the endless procession of despots who had a ready talent for wholesale slaughter? This god of yours is limited in his understanding of the meaning of the word, justice, and very selective as to whom it should be administered to.

Nobody in their right mind can argue that the slaughter first born children is an act of mercy by god or other. You might get some traction if the slaughter was of those who actually perpetrated the injustice. It is far more likely to be no more than a story built upon some catastrophic event described in terms of plagues and a much higher death toll of infants.

But that's not the point is it? The point is that religious folk so easily become apologists for and see mercy in events that are abhorent to normal people. Thank God I'm spiritually blind and don't have your talent for religious insight.