Just the idea that God is anything more than a lousy, wicked, selfish, envious Tyrant that wants everyone to suffer the maximum possible amount is a blatant lie. You look at the first command: Had the first pair had the power to decide for themselves what is right and wrong, they would have had the power to improve their lives. Look at Cain (who offered up a sacrifice to the Almighty Ingrate), and was not accepted despite that it was the best he had (how can one offer up a lamb that one does not have?).
And, what kind of righteous God would destroy all other nations solely because they were not obeying that Louse? That is what Jehovah did. Jehovah also punished Israel when they tried to improve their lot in life beyond the stagnation that He prescribed. And allowing famine and war, accidents, disease, the FDA, and general hardship because He is too busy turning the opposite sex off toward me (creating yet more unnecessary apprehension and suffering) just to get me into the Value Destroyer Training School down the road to repair His congregation! Is that anything other than pure wickedness on God's part?
On top of that, why would one need a Satan to blame for all the miscues if the Almighty was also benevolent? No. Jehovah needed to blame innocent Satan for His own actions. Causing problems and then blaming Satan, getting away with causing lifetimes of trouble in Satan's name--another sign of a God that is truly wicked. Remember, Satan tried to get Adam to think for himself, ending his slavery to Almighty Tyrant.
On top of that, I see all the incidents of where people like King David (initiated force to possess Israel) got away with it, even being glorified for killing tens of thousands of innocent people. Then he got away with several other sins while tens of thousands of innocent people got to pay the price. I definitely think that rules out the Old Testament as anything more than a mysticism filled story.
What about the New Testament? What the Watchtower Society (indeed most Christian religions) will not tell you is that Jesus was actually doing the same sort of work as Satan! Satan, remember, attempted to liberate the first couple from religious tyranny. And so did Jesus, but at a later date. Most reference to "sin" that Jesus referred to were parables intended for a people that could not think for themselves, in an attempt to guide them into thinking on their own (try finding that in any Watchtower littera-trash). Most of the "sins" that Jesus preached against had to do with initiatory force, coercion, or fraud when properly decoded.
Along comes Paul. Instead of being a peasant that couldn't think, he was educated and could think on his own. However, he took the parables of Jesus literally, creating transcription errors at the source. Paul was, in effect, telling people that they should literally do what Jesus said, as if it were for thinking people (it was for peasants trying to become thinking people). That is where you have most of the laws in the Bible. However, even at this stage, it is not that bad (though it is already out of date).
It isn't until the early Catholic church assembled the Bible that you had problems. Remember, the early Catholics kept the Bible to itself, hand picked the parts that would fit their doctrines, and threw out the other books (which is why they are hidden). It wasn't until the King James version that the Bible, still with all its original faults and the problems the early Catholic church introduced, became a common book to common people. (Sounds like anything the Watchtower Society itself has attempted to pull?)
I, personally do not trust the Bible literally. It is too full of glorified initiatory force, stock answered prayers (so Jehovah, the Almighty Tyrant, doesn't have to answer any new ones--He can just point to the stock ones), and misinterpreted stories. Besides, I will never put any faith in a God that has the whole opposite sex reject me (so He can have me in the Value Destroyer Training School), and then blames Satan like He did on April 1, 1995, for anything. Yup, Jehovah BAGHEAD, you can take those fxxxing stock prayers and shove them up your axx.
