Nothing divides a world's people like religion, over the multiple interpretations of the christian/islamic/judea god YHWH.
careful examination of this character in the multiple books about him in the tora, the old testement, and the koran would show that the hebrew god (or allah if you will) is actually the least humane, least loving, most bloodthirsty, vengeful, evil being ever depicted. Even in the worst Horror books, you would not find the sheer cruelty, genocide, and hate driven madness on a scale as would be found in ancient scriptures about this god.
Man follows right in his footsteps, and most times under his direct influence.
For intance, Kill a person for the following offenses.
Worshipping other gods (Judeaism)
Arguing with parents (Judeasim)
Screwing the neighbor (Judeaism)
Stealing (Judeasim)
Thinking about any of the above (Judeasim)
Getting raped (Islam)
Believing the christ is the son of god (Islam)
Christianity is quoted in the new testament in Matthew "Must follow every Jot and Tittle of the law" referring to Judeastic law
Not worshipping god as they do (all three)
There are stories in the Bible that are in Dueteronomy, Exodus, and Leviticus that depict some of the worst, heinus, and cruel acts against humity under god's rules, which go against the very survival of the human race.
The Koran is clearly one message, "Kill the Infidel" through Muhammed is quoted in a couple of places that Allah dislikes aggressors, but the overall message is still pretty clear Kill Kill Kill.
Religion is now cherry picked to only quote the good parts. You will find this in every church, and every sunday school class. Preachers often quote from the bible a verse or two. Do you ever hear them yell out the orders to kill 32,000 innocent men, women, and children just for living in a town that god supposedly said was evil?
The rules, and laws in that time were barbaric by today's standards. It sickens me to see that people are saying that religion needs to be infused in our society to make it better, when in the grand scheme of things it will make it far worse.
To say that morals were commanded by god, is a joke when you see that clergy abused power for centuries, and even in today' world, how many priests have we heard about that rape children?
Religion needs to go away, like apollo. zeus, posiden, RA, and Ba'al. religion is a sick minded idea of someone's over active asperations to control people through brainwashing. Starting from childhood, into adulthood. Condemn all that do not believe as you to hell. and currently the nation of Islam is doing just that to their own people as well as the soldiers on the ground.
I just want to puke when I hear the freaking president say that this is god's wishes to go over there and whoop on Iraq. God had nothing to do with it jackass! You were cleaning up Daddy's mess from 1991, and 9/11 gave you a catalyst to do it. Go ahead, lie some more!
The many different religions of the world all claim to have a corner on god's market, but none of them have any logical, tangible, or credible proof to back up a freaking thing they say. One book they refer to as the proof that they can present. Bullshit!
That is my bit. carry on