A friend and I were talking about the horrors of Passover recently, so I thought it was a good time to mention God’s well-known technique or placing pressure on a leader (Pharaoh) to get him to do something: Kill a child from every family! Y’all know the story; here’s Exodus 11-12:

[11:1 ] And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether… [11:4] And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: [11:5] And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts… [12:29] And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. [12:30] And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Now is that doesn’t deserve U.N. condemnation, what does?