God and the Old Testament, Brutal Violence for Who? And God´s Love through Jesus?

Jo H Cle How many people and animals did G@d kill with the Flood? How many people and animals did G@d kill while Passingover in Egypt, in destroying cities? Why do so many insist on teaching from a Bible that includes so much killing by G@d? At leadt at the Episcopal Sunday School I was sent to , it was about Jesus’s love. Reply 4hEdited Mark Rego Monteiro Jo H Clem I was raised by an ex-church atheist humanist who valued education. I had academic success at the start, as part of my spiritual-religious interest in interfaith spiritual practice starting with scholar H Smith´s Chinese Tao and Unitarian Universalist interfaith. I got a degree in Bio Anthro, going for the evolution of speech, symbolic behavior, psychosocial interaction, and religious ritual. It also included Stone Age Cave Art. Understanding the way evolution works, from individual organisms to human social life meant thinking about the meaning of "survival of the fittest." R Dawkins had written his book The Selfish Gene. If you study archeology, you don´t hear much about the Jews overall. The Assyrians and Egyptians were powerhouses early one. Babylon. Greeks, Romans, Persians. Alexander the Great. Julius Caesar. I find that a relevant bunch of angles to clarify the meaning of Jesus Christ. And the OT. Especially now, thanks to Buddhist mindfulness, being aware that my love of University-based education reflects how Christians turned monastic schools into those Universities. The rise of secularism and mechanicism is a crucial additional issue, as are the three devastating forms of materialism that oppose or interfere with spiritual religious practice and knowledge of phenomena, I´ve come to see. Jesus Christ is a very intriguing figure, whose movement switched from Jewish to Roman gentile in nature, with ample Greek philosophical tools in play. The survival of the Jewish people, the Hebrews, and so on, is an adventure in archeology and anthropology, that is in Jesus´ legacy, and can richly inform Biblical study. God didn´t just part the Red Sea every time, and there were vicious intertribal battles amongst vicious powers, like the Assyrians, and the Egyptian pharaohs saying they "wiped out the seed of Israel." on the Merneptah stele, for example.