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HM: If you pay attention to the Old Testament, Yahweh pretty much makes himself the one God of the Jews, then sets out to prove that he has a bigger dick than all the other Gods in the area. In Genesis, it is worth noting that Cain, having slain Abel, is cast out to the land of Nod where he takes a wife of a tribe of people not created by Yahweh. Later on, in Exodus (I believe), Moses sees the burning bush, and asks what God it actually is, because there are a bunch of them (the Jews being polytheists at the time, but having a different Canon than the enslaving Egyptians). That is, of course, if you take the whole book as rock-hard fact, rather than a series of cool stories that can teach us a lot if you focus less on the slaying of the iniquitous and such...
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
---Friedrich Nietzsche
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