Precisely how the Yahwehist arrives at the conclusion that he or she is worshipping something good, something
not
evil, is not at all clear. The Middle Eastern god of the Pentateuch claims – albeit without a hair of evidence – that the earth is its
“
footstool
” (Isaiah 66:1) over which it rules like some insecure, vengeful despot: “for I, the LORD your God, am a
jealous
God,
punishing
the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me” (Exodus 20:5). These are hardly the words of a confident, loving, personal deity, rather the utterances of a frightened, tyrannical hobgoblin; a self-obsessed succubus whose very demand to be worshipped is expressly and unequivocally immoral. Worship requires the total abandonment of one’s
moral autonomy
in favour of blind, non-questioning obedience, and to order such a thing – under the threat of…
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