"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our 'God', with minute and remorseless exactness.The portrait is substantially that of a man, if one can imagine a man charged and overcharged with evil impulses far beyond the human limit. His acts expose his vindictive, unjust, ungenerous, pittiless and vengefull nature, constantly. He is always punishing, punishing innocent children for the misdeeds of their parents. Punishing unoffending populations for the misdeeds of their rulers.
It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light by contrast."
Mark Twain