Quote:It would be far more straightforward to have a natural order created by a purposeful intelligence than a universe ruled over by various different gods controlling each and every part of nature. The Bible really goes to great lengths to dissuade people from believing in gods such as Thor. There is page after page of emphasis on this, it repeats this point over and over again trying to drill it in. The Jews kept trying to worship gods of fertility such as Baal or whatever so the prophets came along from time to time to tell them to stop doing that. They were told this because it was bloody stupid, these were just man made gods of wood and stone who could do nothing at all. God was telling them to stop looking to those and look to him.
Stop worshiping those fake gods and worship my fake god (or we'll kill you)!
