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Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

Published: May 8, 2016, 6 p.m.

b'America\'s leading atheist, the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and co-host of\\xa0Freethought Radio,\\xa0Dan Barker, talks about his latest book,\\xa0God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction\\xa0(audiobook) \\xa0 The roots of the book go to Richard Dawkins\'\\xa0famous description\\xa0of God in his book\\xa0The God Delusion.\\n\\n\\u201cThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.\\u201d\\n\\nBarker provides scriptural verses for each of the above attributes and then adds more that Dawkins missed. \\xa0Barker challenges Christians to pull back the veil of devotion and read what the "good book" really presents as "God."'