Reading Fiction, and Loving It

WHEN the so called "lord" destroyed fifty thousand and seventy Philistines in retribution for some curious but disobedient soul taking a quick peek inside teh ark of the covenant, it came to my attention upon reading about this episode in some ancient work of fiction that the blblical god is not only fictional, but also a petty tyrant and psychotic genocidal mass murderer to boot. I was in grade school then. When he, she, or it tormented Abraham, a man of unquestionable fidelity, by ordering him to slice his own son to pieces as a show of godly love, rather than finding out by simply reading his mind, for me the deal was sealed, the die cast. I would never be a bible carrying christian. Those who worship this monster are mentally ill, I much later concluded, and thus no better then he, Thank god that there is no evidence anywhere for the actual existence of the old testament god, and an abundance of evidence against it. In a better parallel republic, the term "Philistine" is code for "republican national committee member", since the republican base is by and large a gang of philistine, meaning, people with no appreciation of or understanding for art and culture. Besides their being arguably mentally ill, onna counta their being in general trump supporters and bible based deity worshipers, the biblical god being the devil in disguise, or, better yet and much more accurately, pure fictional and nonsense.