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 othe...