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From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Heavenly harassment.
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 18:52:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 18:52:26 1984
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Some info on my background: I used to have vague religious feelings
which have been noticed to intensify during critical moments of my life,
events which I had no control over, exams, etc. Once upon a day I decided
to get myself a better understanding of my God (read bible). That was the
end of my vaguely religious feelings! The god's character was so irrational
(to my taste), unreasonable, vengeful, spiteful, and sadistic(sic) that I
became deeply disgusted. This creator is a total feeble-minded schizophrenic,
said I to myself => the book is a joke. There were, of course, other
considerations which helped me with the conclusion.

The above happened some time ago, does NOT represent a generally 
acceptable anti-religious argument, and is not an invitation to
comment on my blindness/mistake/naivete. Too easy.

It's just an example of sentiments towards bible's main character.
I am interested in how people perceive the god's character in the bible
(old Testament). Behavior, possible (god forbid!) motives, etc.
 
Apologies to those who feel that bible is overrepresented here,
                                Mike Musing