This is certainly God’s Old Testament reputation among unbelievers and the aggressively
anti-Christian, isn’t it? I love to quote Richard Dawkins on this subject,
since his description is possibly the most vitriolic I’ve ever encountered: “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.”
Well, at least he said “arguably”. Good. I’m going to argue it.