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Originally Posted by Dawkinian
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
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But you've got to love Him for it, right? The honesty to lay your cards on the table and smite those who deserve it. God loves us so much He does all this for us, who are righteous, so that we live forever with Him in Heaven while those He smote burn.
GLORY!