If men kill the innocent in war, even unjust wars, are we to point a finger at God when he determines that at a particular point in history this is a necesssary action?
Yes. Men have murdered men as long as they have existed, yet we still try them for murder.
Can these sons be integrated into this nation as easily as daughters who marry and bear children can be? I'm not giving reasons only trying to say that we today have no idea what it was like in those times.
Why would you think this? There are mountains of historical and archealogical records that give us today a fairly good picture of what life back then looked like.
George Washington was a slave owner, so was his wife. To say today that Washington was a bigot because he did not live as we do without owning slaves is wrong as well.
He was a product of his times.
So too with Moses and his day, different times, different circumstances.
Bingo, the Israelites had no higher moral code, their perfect justice from God was apparently just as brutal and bloodthirsty and ruthless as the nations around them. Nothing special
We today are killing millions of unborn children something that in Moses' day would have been considered unthinkable and probably also in Washington's day.
False comparison. Moses was killing unborn babies against the wishes of the pregnant woman and then murdering her. Today abortion is a hotly debated topic and the pregnant woman chooses to do it, but the law still requires that be done before a certain date. Back in the day of Moses, the only way to know a woman was pregnant was to see plainly visible signs, well past the date at which an abortion is illegal today. Sad that our current law is MORE CONSERVATIVE that Moses' divine law that ripped and cutted fully formed babies from their mothers wombs.
So we hardly have a right to say that we today are somehow more righteous than those who lived long before us.
See above. We have every right.
Most Americans never experience war, we kill by proxy with our soldiers, our bombs and drones. If you or I had been born in Moses time we would have been trained to defend the nation at all costs.
The first portion is irrelevant, the second has already been refuted by you when you said we have no idea what it was like to live in those times. You cannot then turn around and claim to know what it was like.
But without the niceties we have today only our own strength of hand. "Finish the job. Don't allow a new generation to come along and our children have to fight this all over again," was a necessary war tactic in times past.
See above and the further above.
The Bible is damned if it tells the raw truth and damned if it sugarcoats it. I prefer the truth.
Since it does both depending the subject, I humbly suggest an unbiased history course.
What Moses' did was necessary at their time and for their time.
Of course that is conjecture and completely unprovable, you realize. Without the alternative having been explored, they would never know if it was necessary or not. There are many examples in history of nations absorbing another, cultures merging, that didn't require the complete murder of innocents. Too bad God wasn't able to pull that off and went for murder every time.