What it was all about is doing the will of your god even if he is a sicko! Church people smile and say that their god was testing Abraham and in no way was he ever going to have him kill Isaac. I am so relieved! I thought it was all about idiots doing the will of a madman.

I've often thought about writing a Freethinker's Bible, in which I would have patriarchs who are told to sacrifice their kids and reply with "Are you out of your freakin' mind? You think I would do that? What kind of God would ask that of somebody? I'm gonna find a different god to worship!!!" and then be rewarded for showing some backbone and independent thought, because that's what a decent Deity would want in a follower.