= The Tenth Plague controversy

The complaint that God justifies killing babies in the bible.

== The ownership issue
The first and most prominent defense in these kinds of attacks is to note that the proposition is essentially 'why should I join your religion since your God justifies killing babies?' i.e. 'I do not condone infanticide //and I will not worship a God who condones killing babies either.//' The complaint itself presents itself as the [[ownership issue]].

As an ownership issue problem the connundrum the accuser faces is that //we, the actual religious people, don't condone infanticide, and we don't believe, nor do we teach, that God does so either.// Therefore the accuser faces a category error problem; no one from within the tradition teaches that God endorses infanticide; so why does the accuser? In all such cases the error is an error of lack of information -- the accuser is speaking out of ignorance or misinformaiton 

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