Just Like Jehovah

[ray]

Roy,

wrathful-->wrathfully?

I don't remember God smiting many baddies in the OT, as he usually used proxies.  So...

"Just like Jehovah smote the baddies
in what we’d now call self-defence."

doesn't make much sense to me, nor do I get it's connection to the rest of the poem, or the satiric quip about "self-defense" (spelled correctly)  

Dale

Thanks, Dale.
It's Ray, actually, not Roy. 
Wrathful is a word and it happens to rhyme with Cottrill. 
 
I googled Jehovah smote and came up with Ethiopians, "a land of cattle", Benjamin, the King of Israel into a leper, the people with a very great plague, the first born of Egypt and, of course, the Philistines. He wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty.

The last two lines are referring to religious intolerance, I suppose; that is, the sense of entitlement that persuades some people of a religious persuasion that their gods cannot be mocked. Hence, jihads, crusades, fatwas.

In the UK we spell it self-defence, not self-defense. So each spelling is both right and wrong. Rather like religious beliefs.