Tuesday 13 July 2010

The most unplesant character in all fiction

If I was to describe a fictional character as " jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomanical, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." everyone who is unfamiliar with that quote would agree the character is pure evil, yet this quote refers to the god of the old testament, which both Jews and Christians (also Muslims, at least in part) hold as the unchanging perfect word of god, so lets see if we can find verses to justify each of those claims.

Proud of his jealousy - Exodus 20:4-5(god admits he will act on his jealousy)
Exodus 34:14(bragging about being jealous)

Petty - Leviticus 24:16(Blasphemy is punishable by death)
Numbers 11:1(death for complaining)

Unjust - Deutoronomy 22:28-29(rape a virgin you must marry her for life)
Job 2:3(ruining the faithful for no reason)

Unforgiving - Isaiah 14:21(punishment for earlier generations crimes)

Control freak - Genesis 3:22-23(stops humans becoming like gods)
Proverbs 3:5(just do what god says)

Vindictive - Genesis 3:14-19(the penalty for eating the wrong fruit)

Bloodthirsty - Jeremiah 51:20-22(go kill things for god)
Genesis 4:3-5(animals make better sacrifices than fruit)

Ethnic cleanser - Joshua 8:24-25(wiping out a city)
Jeremiah 50:21(another massive cull of foreigners)

Misogynistic - Exodus 21:2-7(male slaves serve 6 years, females permanently) G19:6

Homophobic - Leviticus 20:13(if a man lies with a man kill both)
Leviticus 18:22(man on man sex is bad)

Racist - Deuteronomy 23:3(none of this race may enter gods congregation)

Infanticidal - 2 Kings 2:23-24(god cooperates with his prophets wish to kill 42 children who called a bald man........bald.
Isaiah 13:16(when pillaging a city the preferred method of killing infants is beating them on rock)

Genocidal - Deutoronomy 13:15(kill everything in the city)
Deuteronomy 20:16-17(kill all members of these tribes, including cattle)

Filicidal - Leviticus 20:9(cursing your parents punished by death)
Deutoronomy 21:18-21(kill disobedient children)

Pestilential - Exodus 9:14-15(makes Egypt sick)
Exodus 9:25(wiping out crops)

Megalomanical - Exodus 10:27(god has spent the past 2 chapters directly controlling the pharaoh so he can abuse Egypt)

Sadomasochistic - Unfortunately the only masochistic bible verses I can find are in the new testament, but looking at the rest of the list sadistic is pretty well sorted and have spent too much time on this already to find any more verses proving what a dick the old testament god is.

Capricious - 1 Samuel 18:1-3(gay is fine)
Genesis 19:33-36(god deliberately saved them when he destroyed their city for being perverse)

Malevolent - Genesis 22:9-12(an all knowing god orders Abraham to sacrifice his son, then stops him at the last minute just to see if he would do it.)

A bully - 1 Chronicles 16:25(ruling by fear)
Leviticus 25:17(more fear)

And a few bonus points that didn't really fit in, god created evil (Isaiah 45:7), god lies (Genesis 2:17) beating slaves is ok if they don't die on the spot(Exodus 21:20-21)

For those Christians thinking ohhh its only the old testament that doesn't apply any more
1) Jesus thinks it does(Matthew 5:17)
2) The whole book is supposed to be the perfect unchanging word of god, thats just not compatible with picking your favourite bits and ignoring the rest.
3)The New Testament contains more than enough douchebaggery too, I may do a post on that another time
4)Anything along the lines of "it is required for a greater good" is nonsense, many of the quotes have no upside at all and god is supposedly omnipotent so he put all the rules in place that require shit to happen for something good to eventually come out of it. Also all good does not mean doing evil for a greater good it means doing only actions which are good in and of themselves.

Want to check my quotes are justified, just stick the references into google, 30ish links seems a bit much for one post. And as with all my posts if you have any objections leave a comment, even on the old stuff, and I will be happy to expand on or defend my position.

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