For @AndreVltchek

For @AndreVltchek, in response to In the USA – “I Cannot Write!”.

“During those two weeks I met some of the greatest thinkers living in the United States: Michael Parenti, and John Cobb. Some time ago I worked with Michael on two books, one his and one mine, but this was our first face-to-face encounter. I discussed Christianity with John Cobb, trying to define what is encoded in it that allows the most horrid atrocities to be committed in the name of the Cross. It was deep, philosophical discussion, and we will convert it into a book, soon.”

What do we know about Jehovah, god of the earliest parts of the bible?

Well, he is slow to anger, but his anger is very terrible. When he becomes angry, he shakes the pillars of the earth. He punishes people by making the earth open up and swallow them. Smoke issues from his nostrils. His eyes are a flame of fire, and his mouth is a consuming fire. The radiance of his immediate presence is so great that no man can look directly upon him and live. He led his people across the desert with a pillar of smoke by day and fire by night. Moses received the law by ascending a mountain that smoked and shook.

He kills almost indiscriminately – human lives are nothing to him. His anger against all humanity is so great that he can only be placated by sacrifice. And not just any sacrifice, but one that is pure and unblemished. Innocent. The key to the redemption of man is a human sacrifice, and not just of any human, but of a sinlessly perfect one. But people still anger him even so, so he will cast them into a lake of fire that wil burn and burn forever. His rage is bottomless, limitless. For his enemies (anyone that does not prostrate themselves to him) no vengeance, no matter how extravagant, is enough.

According to the bible, all of humanity is descended from a tribe of people from the region of Mt Ararat. I would wager a considerable amount that 10,000 years ago or so, those mountains were active volcanoes.

What is encoded in christianity that permits atrocities? Only the most fearsome, violent and unpredictable phenomenon in all nature, one that must be placated, pleased, flattered by any means necessary, at any cost, and not always with much success. Jehovah is a volcano god – he is as as frightening and cruel as every other volcano god like him.