God
Subtitle: the most unpleasant character in all fiction
By: by Dan Barker ; foreword by Richard Dawkins
Contributors: Dawkins, Richard, 1941- writer of foreword
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781454918325
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Bible
Description: "English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer Richard Dawkins opens Chapter 2 of his bestseller The God Delusion by saying that the God of the Old Testament is "arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction" and goes on to list nineteen negative character traits. Now in God : the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, Dan Barker, a former ordained minister and current atheist, proves that Dawkins was right."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Dawkins was right; title: Jealous and proud of it; title: Petty; title: Unjust; title: Unforgiving; title: Control freak; title: Vindictive; title: Bloodthirsty; title: Ethnic cleanser; title: Misogynistic; title: Homophobic; title: Racist; title: Infanticidal; title: Genocidal; title: Filicidal; title: Pestilential; title: Megalomaniacal; title: Sadomasochistic; title: Capriciously malevolent; title: Bully; title: Part 2. Dawkins was too kind; title: Pyromaniacal; title: Angry; title: Merciless; title: Curse hurling; title: Vaccicidal; title: Aboriticidal; title: Cannibalistic; title: Slavemonger; title: What about Jesus?