(October 23, 2011 at 4:10 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Because he is a son of a bitch.
...or....
To be more real...
The people who INVENTED the FICTIONAL CHARACTER known as "GOD" or "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" in the old testament were racist, sexist, short sighted jerk slavers who only cared about their immediate profit. They therefore needed something scary to back up their fallacies from authority that they could just take people and sell them as cattle, or treat women like shit, or rape and pillage.
Therefore...God.
Or maybe they didn't have science back then so this was how they explained things. Why does there have to be a malicious reason for it? Perhaps they just needed a way to explain their existentialist crosses and their need for order in society (any order), and a way to enforce it.
Sounds like a way to control the masses so that order could be maintained. I'm not saying it was good order, but it might've been seen as reliable, predictable order.