Image by Cecilia... via Flickr Is America complicit in Shedding Innocent Blood? One of the charges God made against the ancient nation of Israel was that their hands were defiled with blood and their fingers with iniquity. For this reason, God would not hear them because their iniquities had separated them from Him, so they he refused to hear. Isaiah went on to say that the acts of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction are in their paths. ...