The character of God in the Bible is essentially Adolph Hitler

Thank you, JustinAMoffatt, for accepting this challenge. I wish you good luck.The Garden of EdenFrom the very beginning of the Bible, God has been portrayed as possessed of heavy double-standards, as well as a cruel sense of overlordship. The earliest example of this of which I can think is the story of the Garden of Eden. God built a sequestered kingdom of perfection for his picture of elite existence. Those that he apparently considered substandard did not live in his utopia. While the Bible makes no specific mention of anything outside the Garden, it is heavily implied. After all, when Cain and Able are mentioned, it is stated that Cain moved far away and married. This illustrates God's vision of favoritism and elitism, the ideal of the perfect humans versus the impure creation. Furthermore, that God created a tree in the center of the Garden, apparently for no purpose except to serve as a test of blind faith, instructing Adam and Eve to never eat from it, though giving no reason, seems to me to be cruel: like placing a dish of a child's favorite candy on the table in front of them and instructing them to never touch it. You may say that this is a test, an opportunity to prove themselves to God. If this is so, it is a cruel test! The human psyche works such that it would be far too tempting not to taste; it is the torment of Tantalus. This illustrates that God has a sense of elitism, of the ideal human, and that humans are not necessarily valuable to him, even, as he protects them from outside only to torment them within.Noah's ArkNoah's Ark seems to me to be the best example of all of the silliness of the Bible. In the beginning of the story, God has apparently grown tired and displeased with his creation, and resolves to destroy all life on Earth. However, Noah convinced him to spare a select few, and God changed his resolution. He decided to create a perfect, new world order, with his ideal model of humanity being spared from the genocide used to purge the 'impure.' God proceeded to kill every living thing on Earth except for what Noah brought on the ark. I won't go into the logistic impossibility of the ark, merely the moral implications; God apparently had no scruples about killing millions for the sake of creating his perfect human race to repopulate his reformed Earth. This vision of genocide to purify the human race was one of Adolph Hitler's most prominent features, and that for which he lives in infamy.JobMany people, perhaps most people, are familiar with that poor unfortunate fellow, Job. For the sake of experimentation, God put Job through some of the most intense misery thinkable, it is unthinkable. Job watched as his whole family was killed, his property lost, his friends turned against him, and his health, deteriorated. When Job cried out to his protector, his All-Father, his leader for help, he got no response, and fell into despondency. God rewarded Job for never faltering by showering him with anything he could want: more objectified wives and children, more livestock, better health, more land, more respect, more friends, etc. Regardless of the reward for his suffering, that Job ever experienced it is appalling. This is for the sake of an experiment, mind you, that God was willing to see Job inflicted with such pain. This indifference to the pain of his subjects is yet one more parallel between God and Hitler; Hitler often sanctioned psychologically and physically excruciating experiments on his subjects as well.Sodom and GomorrahAnother famous story of God's wrath would be the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham's cousin Lot was given an opportunity: God, apparently once more apt to purge humanity of 'undesirable elements,' resolved to gas the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, in one of which Lot resided. Why? Because they allegedly had large populations of homosexuals. That's right, God was gassing them for gay sex. While he didn't round them up and lock them in gas chambers, he did essentially bomb their cities with burning chunks of pyroclastic material releasing poisonous gases, a slow, painful death. This is remarkably similar to Adolph Hitler, who also loathed homosexuals (largely because homosexuality isn't condoned by the Bible), and who gassed them for gay sex just as God did.Lady LoveGod is not often portrayed as a pedophile or otherwise sexual miscreant, but the story of the Holy Virgin always bothered me. Historical estimations place Mary at about age 14 when she had her firstborn. Now, pause for a moment to consider how she got pregnant: either she did or did not have sex. If she did have sex, then she's no longer the Holy Virgin. If she did not, then the conclusion is that God magically impregnated Mary. So, God magically impregnated a fourteen- or thirteen-year-old virgin in a society that, at God's bidding, would readily execute an unmarried non-virgin. Later, after Mary gave birth to God's baby, God, he returned and killed he and Mary's baby, himself, and then three days later, while dead, changed his mind. Excepting the obviously ridiculous nature of this story, this shows us two things about God's personality: he has a bit of a dirty fetish, and he doesn't stay for breakfast. Yes, I said God has a fetish; that is what it is called, usually, when a person has a sexual preference that defers from normally accepted parameters. In this case, God likes them young. Complain all you will, but it remains that God impregnated a virgin. I only know of one way babies are made, and if the Con can supply another, so be it. Furthermore, God practically vanished from this poor girl's life after impregnating her, not to return until she gave birth to him. Anyway, all of that to lead to the point that God, like Adolph Hitler, had a twisted sex life and few scruples about it.RevelationThe final point that I shall cover for now is the final point in the Bible, the book of Revelation. I will not attack all of the extremely trippy facets that make it seem like John the Beloved discovered peyote several thousand kilometers from its place of origin. I will merely deal with the apocalyptic prophecies. Revelation speaks of a coming doom for the human race. Once more, it seems, God resolved to purify the human race, killing every living thing on Earth except for a select few that represent God's version of the ideal human race. Once more, this is genocide for the sake of racial purity, Adolph Hitler's claim-to-fame.ConclusionI conclude that, because God is represented by the Bible as unscrupulous and quite ready to commit genocide for the sake of racial purity, as of this point in the debate, I conclude that my point is upheld: God is essentially Adolph Hitler, on a grander, mythological scale. I now incline the floor to the Con.Sources The Holy Bible, New King James Version