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02042aam a22003137i 4500 001 2D1EEC5807E711E8BC4A901F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180202010323 008 160525t20162016nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2015463703 020 $a 1454918322 020 $a 9781454918325 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)915507070 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $e rda $d BDX $d YDXCP $d UAG $d MEAUC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d KSU $d UAB $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a BL473 $b .B348 2016 082 04 $a 231 $a 231 $2 23 100 1 $a Barker, Dan, $e author. 245 10 $a God : $b the most unpleasant character in all fiction / $c by Dan Barker ; foreword by Richard Dawkins. 260 $a New York : $b Sterling, $c 2016. 300 $a x, 310 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Dawkins was right-- Jealous and proud of it -- Petty -- Unjust -- Unforgiving -- Control freak -- Vindictive -- Bloodthirsty -- Ethnic cleanser -- Misogynistic -- Homophobic -- Racist -- Infanticidal -- Genocidal -- Filicidal -- Pestilential -- Megalomaniacal -- Sadomasochistic -- Capriciously malevolent -- Bully -- Part 2. Dawkins was too kind -- Pyromaniacal -- Angry -- Merciless -- Curse hurling -- Vaccicidal -- Aboriticidal -- Cannibalistic -- Slavemonger -- What about Jesus? 520 $a "English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer Richard Dawkins opens Chapter 2 of his bestseller The God Delusion by saying that the God of the Old Testament is "arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction" and goes on to list nineteen negative character traits. Now in God : the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, Dan Barker, a former ordained minister and current atheist, proves that Dawkins was right."--Dust jacket. 630 00 $a Bible. 700 1 $a Dawkins, Richard, $d 1941- $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180202012217.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2D1EEC5807E711E8BC4A901F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search