I've often wondered about God being racist. I think I have no choice but to become an atheist. It seems to make the most sense.

Just for clarity's sake, when I say "favorite post ever", I mean, "favorite post ever that I wrote", because that was under my handle at the time.

my #1 problem, and one that has left my utterly confused, is that I was taught in my baptist Sunday school that God is omnipotent. He always was, always is and always will be. He knows each one of us individually because he made us, and knows what we are going to do because he is omnipotent. SO here's my problem. Since he already knew/knows how everything is going to turn out, why did he make Adam and Eve in the first place? He knew Eve was gonna eat the apple, and that we would all sin and fall short of his "glory", so why not make a perfect being instead??? My answer is he's a sick bastard who likes to see us all worry and fight and kill one another because he didn't give us quite enough brains to figure him out.

The thing is, the Old Testament was written at a time when gods were essentially thought of as superpowered people, with all the same emotions and insecurities as people, but enough power to inflict them on everyone else.

When did they think anything different? I mean look at the norse mythology.

or Greek. Greek gods were a terrible.
My assumption is when God launched the hostile takeover he hired good PR people.

At least in theory, the New Testament God isn't supposed to be like that. But yeah, my point was that the earliest Old Testament stories about God are pretty much the old fashioned anthropomorphic god format, with God picking random people to pick on, being easily angered, being jealous, making wagers with other supernatural beings over the actions of mortals, etc.

I've always hated the whole Job story. God completely screws with this guys life and head for a "betcha a coke!" deal with the devil. Nice.

I'm still partial to your Ann Coulter post. ;)
Naw, after the deal with the Jews fell through, plan B was Jesus and the new deal. Rather than depend on a race to be the chosen, start a religion and let everyone chose to be chosen or not. Osama chose not to.