The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character…

Richard Dawkins
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all 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, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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