It's Enough to Make You Wonder

You've got to wonder about an allegedly all-good and all-powerful God who:

• boasts about how jealous (insecure) he is;
• smote ancient Hebrew priests for burning the wrong incense;
• struck down a non-priest for helping to steady the about-to-be-dropped Ark of the Covenant;
• made "unclean" animals the eating of which is forbidden;
• singled out one indistinguishable group of Canaanites from others;
• forbade his name from to be spoken;
• demands that people rest on a particular day (forbidding such restful things as smoking);
• wanted animals sacrificed to him and their blood sprinkled around a grand temple in precisely prescribed ways (and maybe still does);
• requires unquestioning obedience even if he tells you to kill your child;
• drowned virtually every living thing on earth in a fit of pique;
• created people knowing full well what they will do -- meaning they had no choice but to do it -- and then punished them for doing it;
• directed his favored group of Canaanites to annihilate other the groups in order to acquire their land, perhaps sparing their virgin daughters and livestock; 
• sicced a killer wild boar on some kids because they made fun of a bald man;
• made a bet with the devil (his creation presumably) to see if a righteous man would remain so despite the unspeakable hardships imposed on him.
• declared some land holier than other land, even though he supposedly created it all;
• claimed to dwell in a particular building called a temple, even though he supposedly a spirit without material form;
• threatened to punish children and grandchildren for the sins of their fathers;
• and so on ad infinitum as described in the very book this God was said to have dictated.

If you were hearing the stories about this God for the first time today, you wouldn't believe them, would you?