Don't Spare the Children: 1 Samuel 15:1-9

Here is another lovely verse found in the Good Book.

      Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one whom the Lord sent to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord Almighty says. He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. Go and attack the Amaleks and compelety destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys."
     Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah. Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed. He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: "Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them." So the Kenites left. 
    Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt; he captured King Agag of Amalek alive and killed all the people. But Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good; they destroyed only what was useless or worthless. -1 Samuel 15:1-9 GNB


Apparently human life is worthless/useless (using religion to support a pro-life position is hypocritical). Faith is what allows a person to read this and not feel disgusted. I personally don't get it, but they say faith is a good thing to have.

Should we have faith in the morality of desert-barbarians who loved to kill babies in their spare time?

The foundation of the New Testament is the Old Testament, regardless of what any Christian claims; it is the "word of God" according to Jesus. Getting morality from the Bible is no worse than getting it from Hitler; both support genocide, but only one is infamous for it—what a bunch of hypocrisy.