Malachi

The last book of the Old Testament provides a pretty limp finish except for the amusing bit where God gets tetchy about his worshippers not coughing up their tithes.

The OT as a whole has some amazing stories and poetry, butI find it impossible to understand how anybody could admire yet alone worship this deity once they have actually read the book which they are supposed to revere. Having waded through rivers of blood to get to this point, it seems apt to quote a celebrated and undeniably true bit from Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion:

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