The God of the Bible Exists

Let's find out a little bit about this God of the Bible who my opponent claims to be able to prove the existence of.Richard Dawkins once famously said on the subject: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.And he was spot on the money! Each and every one of his indictments is clearly justified by the bible; Pro must prove that this God exists, one capable of all the disgusting and immoral acts that we read about in the Bible. The God who is pro-torture, pro-slavery and pro-genocide.I'll run through list finding verses to justify each accusation; please note that I have many verses to choose from to demonstrate each claim; I'll limit myself to one for each descriptive."Jealous and proud of it"Exodus 34:14 [1]Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.This was literally dictated by God to Moses according to the Bible. In other words, God is so proud of his jealousy that he says his name is "Jealous"."...petty..."Deuteronomy 22:11-12 [2]Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear. "...unjust..."Exodus 20:5 [3]You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.Is that just? To punish somebody's great great grandchildren for thier sins?"...unforgiving..."Joshua 24:19 [4]You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins."...control-freak; a vindictive..."Deuteronomy 25:15-68 [5]I don't have space to quote the whole of this vile set of verses (but I encourage the hardy reader to check out the link [5] at the bottom). Here are some choice snippets:...if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today......The fruit of your womb will be cursed......The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin......The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess......The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish......Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals......The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured......You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her......Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand......The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.... ...Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities. If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.... "...Bloodthirsty..."Isaiah 34:1-3 [6]Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples!Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies.He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood."...ethic cleanser..."1 Samuel 15:1-3 [7]Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'""...a misogynistic..."Deuteronomy 21:11-13 [8]If you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her,you may take her as your wife. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife."...homophobic..."Leviticus 20:13 [9]If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads"...racist..."Deuteronomy 7:6 [10]For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession."...infanticidal..."Leviticus 26:22 [11]I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted."...genocidal..."Deuteronomy 20:16-17 [12]However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — as the Lord your God has commanded you."...filicidal..."Deuteronomy 13:6-10 [13]If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your handmust be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God."...pestilential..."1 Samuel 5:9 [14]But after they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors."...megalomaniacal..."Ezekiel 38:23 [15]And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord."...sadomasochistic..."Ezekiel 23:34 [16]Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD."...capriciously malevolent..."Ezekiel 12:20 [17]The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord."...bully."Ezekiel 38:21-23 [18]I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.In short, I would say that the lack of blood and guts in major cities across the World is evidence that there is (thank goodness) no such bloodthirsty a monster as Yahweh. 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