While I appreciate your view and I can see the parallels of God leading the Israelites into the promised land, I do not think the atomic bombing of Japan can be justified by comparing the raining of sulfur by God on Sodom and Gomorrah.
[Was Japan Sodom and Gomorrah? ]
Hiroshima, the city consisted of 80% civilians.
Schoolchildren and people not directly connected to the military also died.
What about those people surviving the wars? Did they deserve such a justice meted out by the USA?
What was the sin of then 8 month old baby Koko Kondo, who had radiation sickness and for the rest of her life was studied like a guinea pig by scientists and doctors? She could never have children.
There were many such women who could never have children again.
If you read Pulitzer Prize winning author John Hersey's book, Hiroshima, accounting six survivors of the war, there were even Christian ministers who were affected by the bombing.
Here's a link to the
Hibakusha and the discrimination they face.
I do know how crucial the atomic bomb was to win the war, but was it ever justified? I do not think so as a Christian.
When I think of Jesus, dying on the cross, suffering for our sake, for our sins, was it justified? By the Law, we are all sinners and deserve to die.
Jesus healed the lepers, the evil and the good. I do not think that by Christian principles any of this could be justified. [perhaps in the view of Judaism]
Sorry. :|
Thanks for the response though.