Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

It's amazing how adept "men of god" are at Humpty Dumpty Semantics--that is, making words mean whatever they want them to mean. I thought only Tom Sawyer knew how to whitewash.....how wrong I was. The gist of Christian philosophy is that the Christian "unchanging god" dictated a text which gives believers "perfect" laws that are impossible to keep and clearly do not stand the test of time. He floods the world because his "perfect" creation sinned (that would be impossible for a perfect creation to do...but that is another story.) and kills every living thing, knowing it does no good, as he already planned to send his son/self to have a 3 day nap so believers won't have to take responsibility for their own actions, and to absolve them of the "sin" and laws that he is responsible for.....bizarre. Now that I got that out of the way, this book makes weak excuses for certain passages they think they can away with--by using Humpty Dumpty semantics, but the author leaves out some of the most damning passages in the bible. He does this because there is no way out of them. Passages such as: Hosea 13:16 Where pregnant women and children are slaughtered for "rebelling against their god" (Umm...how do the unborn rebel??) and Numbers 1:2 where Moses takes a census--but women and children are not included in a census, as women and children are PROPERTY!! And lets not forget Lot and his daughters. Lot was willing to sacrifice his daughters to a mob intent on raping them to save his male guests. Whether or not the Israelites had strict policies on "inhospitality," offering his children to a rabid mob intent on raping them is one of the worst forms of misogynistic child abuse I can think of. But they are just property after all....right? Christianity has heroes that are rapists, adulterers murderers and pimps. (David, Abraham and Solomon )...and you wonder why the world is the way it is. Christianity is a sick, sick philosophy based on a perverted text and a megalomaniacal version of a god. And yes, this god IS A MORAL MONSTER.

A book tht I've been looking for. Another of Paul Copan' s book which tackles the same issue in more specific in one book is he with Matthew Flanagan, "Did God Really Command Genocide?"

Best Old Testament Apologetics!