"O Livro Negro de Deus"?

Em tempos pensei em escrever um texto com este titulo indo à biografia autorizada de Deus e ver quantas pessoas ele matou (e depois eventualmente comparar com Hitler, Estaline, Mao, etc.).

Mas entretanto achei aqui (via Marginal Revolution) uma contagem já feita (no contexto de uma comparação entre Deus e o Diabo):

How many people did God kill in the Bible?

It's impossible to say for sure, but plenty. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? There's just no way to count them all. This list doesn't include those figures.

	SAB, Brick Testament	Number Killed	Cumulative Total
Lot's wife for looking back	Gen.19:26, BT	1	1
Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord"	Gen.38:7, BT	1	2
Onan for spilling his seed	Gen.38:10, BT	1	3
For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf	Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT	3000	3003
Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord	Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61, BT	2	3005
A blasphemer	Lev.24:10-23, BT	1	3006
A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath	Num.15:32-36, BT	1	3007
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families)	Num.16:27, BT	12+	3019+
Burned to death for offering incense	Num.16:35, 26:10, BT	250	3269+
For complaining	Num.16:49, BT	14,700	17,969+
For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"	Num.25:9, BT	24,000	41,969+
Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive)	Num.31:1-35, BT	90,000+	131,969+
God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing.	Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT	5+	131,974+
God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone).	Joshua 8:1-25, BT	12,000	143,974+
God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites	Judges 1:4, BT	10,000	153,974+
Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly	Jg.3:15-22, BT	1	153,975+
God delivered Moabites	Jg.3:28-29, BT	10,000	163,975+
God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other.	Jg.7:2-22, 8:10, BT	120,000	283,975+
The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson	Jg.14:19, BT	30	284,005+
The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson	Jg.15:14-15, BT	1000	285,005+
Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism	Jg.16:27-30, BT	3000	288,005+
"The Lord smote Benjamin"	Jg.20:35-37, BT	25,100	313,105+
More Benjamites	Jg.20:44-46	25,000	338,105+
For looking into the ark of the Lord	1 Sam.6:19	50,070	388,175+
God delivered Philistines	1 Sam.14:12	20	388,195+
Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death	1 Sam.15:32-33	1	388,196+
"The Lord smote Nabal."	1 Sam.25:38	1	388,197+
Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling	2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10	1	388,198+
David and Bathsheba's baby boy	2 Sam.12:14-18	1	388,199+
Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord	2 Sam.21:6-9	7	388,206+
From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children)	2 Sam.24:13, 1 Chr.21:7	70,000+	458,206+
A prophet for believing another prophet's lie	1 Kg.13:1-24	1	458,207+
God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands	1 Kg.20:28-29	100,000	558,207+
God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers	1 Kg.20:30	27,000	585,207+
God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet	1 Kg.20:35-36	1	585,208+
Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god.	2 Kg.1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9	1	585,209+
Burned to death by God	2 Kg.1:9-12	102	585,311+
God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head	2 Kg.2:23-24	42	585,343+
Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah	2 Kg.7:17-20	1	585,344+
Jezebel	2 Kg.9:33-37	1	585,355+
God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners	2 Kg.17:25-26	3+	585,358+
Sleeping Assyrian soldiers	2 Kg.19:35, 2 Chr.32:21, Is.37:36	185,000	770,358+
Saul	1 Chr.10:14	1	770,359+
God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah	2 Chr.13:15-17	500,000	1,270,359+
Jeroboam	2 Chr.13:20	1	1,270,360+
"The Lord smote the Ethiopians."	2 Chr.14:9-14	1,000,000	2,270,360+
God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out	2 Chr.21:14-19	1	2,270,361+
Ezekiel's wife	Ezek.24:15-18	1	2,270,362+
Ananias and Sapphira	Acts 5:1-10	2	2,270,364+
Herod	Acts 12:23, BT	1	2,270,365+

Ou seja, sem contar com o dilúvio, Sodoma, Gomorra e os primogénitos do Egipto, Deus terá morto 2.270.365 pessoas (hum, sem contar com o Holocausto, quantas terá morto Hitler? E Estaline sem as depurações dos anos 30? E Mao, sem o Grande Salto em Frente e a Revolução Cultural?). Aparentemente, não é muito comparado com as matanças e ditadores do século XX (Deus estará ao nível de um Chang Kai-Shek ou de um Pol Pot, pelos vistos).

Já agora, um comentário que me parece interessante, ainda que não original no conteúdo: "Is it just me or...does it seem that God took a prozac before jumping into the [New Testament].None of these deaths occur in that portion. Why the sudden case of bi-polar disorder?" (para falar a verdade, dá-me a ideia que 3 dessas mortes ocorrem no NT; de qualquer forma, a corriqueira comparação entre o "Deus cruel" do VT com o "Deus bonzinho" do NT esquece que o VT pretende cobrir séculos, enquanto o NT se passa em pouco mais de 30 anos; provavelmente não seria difícil pegar no VT e extrair uma parte cobrindo 30 anos em que Deus até fosse compassivo - p.ex., quando os hebreus andaram vagueando pelo deserto e Deus mandava-lhes "maná").