GOD - Chapter 4 (Unforgiving)

Barker presents his next point in chapter 4 -- that the Abrahamic deity YHWH is unforgiving. By this point, you don't even really have to read the chapter to know that YHWH is absolutely any/all of the negative qualities that Barker says he is. It is sort-of obvious that YHWH literally could possible be the worst of all characters -- real or fiction (but really what is fictional? Certainly there have been enough actions performed in the name of this God that it has rendered it real in at least some sense.) 

The chapter starts off with a quote from Joshua:

"He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins"

So much for all of that hoopla about 'forgiveness'. Or perhaps that is where Jesus comes in in the New Testament (although I suspect that the reputation of the New Testament for forgiveness is not exactly warranted...although, it is only a suspicion at this point.) YHWH, Barker says, lectures his subjects like a stern parent would a child. 

He also presents a strangely resonant Genesis quote:

"By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, & to dust you shall return"

That is the only part of this insane bible that I have so far found to have contained any amount of sense (or at least what we would identify as sense in this era.) 

Me reading this fuckin' shit

YHWH says he will not even forgive those who are 'humbled & brought low' by his punishments. (Isaiah 2:6-9) (NIV)The Lord will "laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your cometh" (Proverbs 1:24-30) (KJV) What a douche! I feel nothing but vindicated all these years of rejecting/standing against this perverse deity. Under the heading 'Kill Without Pity', Barker presents this quote from the book of Ezekiel:

"Go ye after him through the city, and smite; let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old & young, both maids, & little children, & women"

Jesus! YHWH is literally training his followers in the 'art' of genocide. When we take away the metaphysical aspect of this, it is even more sinister: This book, & its horrific content have been used (& continue to be used) as justification for horrific misdeed, in which humans inflict such pain & suffering upon each other. And it is biblically ordained, no less. Acharya S was not out-of-depth when she indicated her belief that Nazism & Bolshevism owe their violent & brutal methods to the Jewish & Christian backgrounds of their interlocutors. Could it be proven otherwise? I don't think it is out-of-the-question.

Barker also presents a quote from Jeremiah along the same lines, under the heading 'Don't Fast Or Worship -- God Will Still Kill You'. Also, YHWH's injunction against the bastards (similar to those deformed; they cannot enter the temple) is written with a word that also could mean 'inter-ethnic'. So YHWH opposes the pollution of the 'pure' Jewish gene pool Greeeeeeat. Well this just keeps getting better.