Extremists: a question and a talk

[robvalue]

God gave a message to an angel to tell to this guy (who couldn't read or write) to tell other people so they could write it down, so other people could read it later.

If this isn't the most absurd, unbelievable story and the absolute worst way to try and communicate (while God is standing around silently watching people kill others due to "misunderstanding" the message), I don't know what is. The responsibility for all this stops with the instigator.

To me, only reasonable conclusions here are that either:

1) God was actually about to die or to become unable to communicate in the future

2) God is a complete idiot

3) God desires mass confusion, murder and war over his message (this doesn't go a long way towards the "peace" angle) and for it to look like complete gibberish to anyone not indoctrinated into it

4) God, if there is one, has nothing to do with this in the first place