Really?

One cannot read the headlines on Google news these days without being reminded that there are millions of Americans who think god is fanatically concerned with where adult men put their penises (SPOILER: vagina ok*, anus bad). These same people, though they may not admit it, are slightly less concerned with what two women do together. Go figure.

Asking why does god care what consenting men do in a bedroom is like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a needle. Theological debates are like sword fights with wet spaghetti noodles; nothing is ever accomplished. The swords are, I'm afraid, not designed to do any sort of cutting. Watching a theological debate is like watching Star Trek and Star Wars fanboys argue about who was a better captain, James Tiberius Kirk or Han Solo.

Sometimes it seems the best way to promote rationalism is to ask people to read their Bibles. It makes no sense! Read the Old Testament and you'll come to see that this Yahweh character has a serious inferiority complex and a major problem with genocidal rage. One day he is angry, another day jealous, sometimes unsure, other-times just pouty. Hell, sometimes he kills people just for trying to help (2 Samuel 6:6-11) or for being curious (1 Samuel 6:19) Good heavens!

One of my philosophy professors once said he thought that Yahweh was a hyper expression of the full range of human emotion. I guess so

*Vaginal sex is only acceptable when two individuals have signed a marital contract before a judge, a contract which is honored only about 50% of the time, and slightly less amongst the people who believe god cares where we put our genitals.