God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
David T. Lambamazon.com
God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
In a certain sense the god of every religion was defective, because he was encumbered with human qualities, only magnified. The God of the Old Testament, for instance, was a hothead who craved servility and was jealous of other gods… the Greek gods had just as many human imperfections, with their quarrelsomeness and their family squabbles—”
Stanislaw Lem • Solaris
“This is the epitome of the stories that seem far too ugly to be in the Bible. This is not trickery of treachery at its most abysmal. It should be said, first of all, that the Hebrew Bible does not romanticize the history of the people of create it, to whom it is addressed, and who have preserved it faithfully over millennia. It is as if America ha
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