That's just lovely,except for one niggly little problem.
YHWH (or"El") is the mythological deity of a bunch of bronze age goat herders,who used to him to explain what they didn't understand about the world, which was almost everything.As they got more civilised they used El to justify some really nasty stuff such as slavery and genocide.
Being mythological,El didn't actually kill anyone.That he was petulant,petty,vindictive, vicious and cruel,is simply a reflection of the people who invented him and the times in which they lived. There wasn't much very unusual about them or El at all. Well OK, compared with the gods of say Babylon,El was downright benign.
Not a lot seems to have changed in parts of the Middle East,where life remains nasty and brutish and short.(unless you're really rich or in charge and a man).
YHWH (or"El") is the mythological deity of a bunch of bronze age goat herders,who used to him to explain what they didn't understand about the world, which was almost everything.As they got more civilised they used El to justify some really nasty stuff such as slavery and genocide.
Being mythological,El didn't actually kill anyone.That he was petulant,petty,vindictive, vicious and cruel,is simply a reflection of the people who invented him and the times in which they lived. There wasn't much very unusual about them or El at all. Well OK, compared with the gods of say Babylon,El was downright benign.
Not a lot seems to have changed in parts of the Middle East,where life remains nasty and brutish and short.(unless you're really rich or in charge and a man).
