How Much Evidence Will It Take You To Believe In God???

[Tonus]

That story always got a chuckle out of me because clearly God is the enemy. He purposely hardens the Pharaoh's heart so he has an excuse to torture the Egyptians. Pretty messed up.

Old testament Yahweh is like "I gotta be me!"

- He lets Satan put Job (a "blameless and upright" man) through the wringer while also murdering his children and his servants (which could have been many dozens of people considering how wealthy he was and how much livestock he owned), then gets angry when Job understandably expects an explanation for why he was treated so shabbily. But the many dead servants and their families? Collateral damage lolz.

- David commits adultery and arranges the murder of his lover's husband to cover it up (ever notice how these people who dealt with God personally never seemed to think much of him?) and suffers the dire penalty of... having his love child killed by God, then taking the woman as his wife and just having another kid! lolz.

- David pisses God off by taking a census, so God asks him to choose from three punishments. David goes total weaksauce and lets God choose because --and I'm not making this up-- God's "mercy is very great." God then sends a plague that kills 70,000 Israelites, but manages to not kill David. This is the second time that he pushes God into a murderous wrath, which God takes out on innocents.

For a pretty awesome example of how arbitrary God's judgment can be, read Exodus 32. Note that when the Israelites ask Aaron to make them an idol to worship, he gets right to the task. He even admits this to Moses when the latter arrives ready to kick ass and take names. But although 3,000 Israelites were killed for worshipping the idol, Aaron gets off scot free for making it. Hell, he becomes the high priest of the new nation! Nepotism FTW!