“No matter where you touched this
God, he bellowed. If you said a kind word to him he lifted his fist and
shouted, ‘I want meat!’ If you offered a lamb or your firstborn son as a
sacrifice, he screamed, ‘I don't want meat. Do not rend your clothes; rend your
hearts. Turn your flesh into spirit, your spirit into prayer, and scatter it to
the winds!’” (Nikos Kazantzakis The Last
Temptation)
I detest the angry, jealous, abusive father-god of the Old Testament! I am unaware of a more terrifying and loathsome, murderous deity! I say this as one who holds a master's degree in the humanities with a concentration in comparative religion, who taught an introductory course in world religions at the university level for seven years.
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