Who Said That?

"The 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."

OK, who is responsible for this rant?  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  I'll post the answer next week.

Update on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 11:42AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As many of you correctly guessed, this quote comes from Richard Dawkin's God Hypothesis (2006), p. 31.

Comments

[presbyterian_keith]

Richard Dawkins

[M Burke]

Two votes for Richard Dawkins

[Emmanuel Hechon]

Christopher Hitchens ?

[wayne]

Bultmann??

[reg]

Dawkins or Hitchens. It always amazes me how these "atheists" who claim they don't believe in God are always so angry at God. Their affect contradicts their message. If they really did not believe they would not be so angry. But I suspect that in their heart they do know God exists and resent the fact that they may be accountable to someone other than themselves.

[Ken Rapoza]

Richard Dawkins.

[Mike Iliff]

Hmm, Dawkins or Hitchins.

[Aaron]

Richard Dawkns

["lee n. field"]

Hitchens or Dawkins, I forget which.

All of the current crop of pop atheists seem to have "issues" with religion. Can't just leave us poor deluded fools to live out lives in peace.

[DB]

God has a word for the authors of such words: "The fool is saying in his heart, 'there surely is no God.' They are corrupt their deeds are vile, not one of them does good." The psalmist goes on to say we are all in the same condition, except for grace. Pray God's grace for such who say these thing. In his mercy He may yet save them.

[RainMan]

Richard Dawkins said it in Ben Stein's Expelled movie.

[billy]

Dawkins

[Dave Sarafolean]

I'll be different...

John Shelby Spong

[Jim Vellenga]

I would say Dawkins or Hitchen, but having said that Spong would probably be cheering on the sidelines. How about Dominic Crossen?

[Chris R.]

If I'm remembering correctly, this is how a chapter opens in Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion".

[Zrim]

It’s interesting how much modern atheists and religionists have in common in the age of the therapeutic. Can’t you just hear a religionist (of whatever breed) diagnosing Dawkins as an angry young man whose cure is faith, even as Dawkins spits back more bile? The next thing you know another silly front in a petty culture war crops up on the sides of buses in London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm

Beware the answer to angry atheism as moralistic-therapeutic deism.

[Andrew]

Dawkins

[TW]

Dawkins

[PB]

"Bishop" Gene Robinson? j/k...sort of...

[Lance]

I think Dawkins, things havent changed since Marcion