Character Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly…

— A. J. Jacobs

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving…

— Richard Dawkins

“And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures,…

— David Plotz

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

— Frances Harper

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

— George Carlin

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

— Mark Twain

“In the face of God's obvious inadequacies, the pious have generally held that one cannot apply earthly norms to the Creator of the universe.…

— Sam Harris

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

— Anne Lamott

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton