Originally posted by twhitehead
It doesn't look like you read the book all the way through. I don't agree with all his arguments, but he does make a lot of good points (obviously many of which were not his own but from previous thinkers), and he gives much food for thought.
We have had many threads on this forum discussing the whole 'immoral OT God' thing and to date I have never see discuss any of the particular points in his book I would be more than willing to.
Yes, I did, its just that I was mentioning the part where he talks about the old and new testaments and takes some quotes and make them look bad.
The best defense to date is the rather weak 'we don't know the whole picture'.
I think we have to acknowledge the fact that they were written more than a thousand years ago, in a much different context. You have to read between the lines, and interpret the meanings, and the purposes of each story.
I am not aware of Dawkins ever trying to disprove 'a bearded man in the sky'.
He creates that image, on that same part of the book, where he says the God from the old testament is a tyrant, a brute.
I think the belief not just in God but also in the supernatural is something very complicated, and dawkins doesn't seem to attempt to understand this, he simply judges it without giving it much thought.