At first it was a little like reading Shakespeare in that I had to adjust to the language before it started to flow. But once it did I was almost immediately horrified at the amount of rape, death, and destruction that poured from its blood soaked pages.
The god of the Old Testament was a tyrannical creature who relied on abject terror in order to control his subjects. And the New Testament god was not much better in that he killed without mercy and even sacrificed his own son in the most brutal way imaginable when he could have easily done away with original sin with a wave of his omniscient hand.
I came away wondering how the words in that book could have inspired even a small cult, much less the largest religion in the world.
