Responses

I like that others are also seeing the hypocrisy of this Yahwey dude, who, at least morally speaking, is not very righteous. Trish's statement that God is an "ass hat" I found to be both accurate and poignant. In the blog before this one she talks about different groups in modern times likening themselves to peoples in the bible and I cant help but remember the first time I read Exodus as an adult.
I was doing a weekend in jail for, well something some religions consider to be a SACRED activity (in my belief, far from a profane one) and I think I will leave it at that... But there I was, in North Dakota, a waste land of dust half the year and ice the other half, with nothing more than a narrow strip of sky to see through the tiny one window, a television (probably to ensure complacency), and a bible. The bible was the only printed material available that I could call literature so I picked it up and turned to genesis. What I saw in Pharao I saw in what the American Justice system has become. Now 2.3 million are behind bars since harsher sentencing begun back in the eighties, and if you don't believe me here's an article from the Washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/28/ST2008022803016.html
I started looking around me at the fuckups and misfits behind these bars, and in the three days I sat there, meditating and reading the bible, I came to see these people as MY people. And I spoke aloud for Pharao (or the military industrial complex)to let my people go. I thought God was actually quite awesome (modern usage) for the whole first half of the book, before all the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo in the second half, and some of those passages really affected me.