The God of the Old Testament

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomanical, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror.

(Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2008), p. 50)

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2 Responses to The God of the Old Testament

  1. I gotta get that book.

  2. wazza says:

    Quinn from the Night’s Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton comes close… but yes, I think YHWH takes the cake.

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