This illustrates the great marketing job that JW's have done with religion. Most Christian religions embrace Jesus because he was a nice guy. (at least in the gospels.) YHWH? Not so much.
As an exercise, I went ahead and picked out one example of Jehovah being an ass from the first 7 books of the OT. There are more, but how can those created in gods image be more enlightened then the maker?? .... Thinking..... Hmmmm..... Looks like the bible was written by men, not a supernatural being... Here is some internal evidence
Genesis 1-3: God creates man twice and in different order, puts man and women together, calls it "good" or perfect, then doesn't tell Adam or Eve of the drug dealing bully (Satan) and holds their ignorance of Satan's existence against them, sentences them and ALL OF US to death for eating a fruit, and kicks them out of paradise. Great parenting skills huh?
Exodus 11: The killing of all firstborn of the Egyptians. When Jehovah does it, its just fine, when Herod does it as he tries to search out the baby Jesus, not so fine? Whats the difference between the two? Both were just trying to consolidate power..... No difference between Herod and Jehovah, as they both have baby genocides attributed to them in the bible.
Leviticus 12: Women were "unclean" for weeks and months due to childbirth and menstration. 21:9 : Burning prostitutes alive in the fire.. Nice touch.
Numbers: 5:11-28 An interesting and weird passage. The priest could be approached by a husband suspicious of his wife's fidelity and be commissioned to make a "magic potion" if you will, that would reveal whether or not a woman was unfaithful to her husband. After a ritual, the wife was made to drink some kind of elixer and if guilty her "thigh" or genitals would rot away... Naturally, there was no test for the woman to bring against her husband if she harbored the same suspicions. Thanks Jehovah! No wonder women hate the OT.
Dueteronomy 21:10-14 How to take a foreign women a male Israelite wants as his wife. It includes this great comment. Of course, this is contradicted several times in the Pentatuch and Malachai, where foreign wives are sent away or killed. So can you keep them or not? Thanks Jehovah!
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And it must occur that if you have found no delight in her, you must then send her away, agreeably to her own soul; but you must by no means sell her for money. You must not deal tyrannically with her after you have humiliated her.
Duet 21:18-21 Lets not forget to stone our rebellious kids who are going through a phase. This phase probably includes the poor kids realizing Jehovah is a tyrannical despot and asking the Hebrew equivalant of "WTF!?"
Joshua: Highlights the genocide of several peoples that pissed off Jehovah. I guess preaching would have been wasted on them.... Good thing Jehovah chose to do it in our time... No? You tell me this is just an arbitrary double standard that can't be explained away except that Jehovah is a god of love? Truly delusional thinking...
Judges 19-21 The absolutely indefensable account of the rape of a concubine in the tribe of Benjamin. It includes the totally just and balanced response of wiping out said tribe. Good thing the owner of the concubine protected her... No... He just cut up her dead body and Fed Ex'd it to all the tribal leaders....
In agreement with this thread, many of these to be executed were in no way wicked. They made the mistake of calling Jehovah's bluff, and the superstitious makers of Oz made sure that fear ruled by killing all dissenters....
