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It's here that we find something very sinister about monotheism and about religious practice in general.

It is incipiently at least, and I think often explicitly, totalitarian.

I have no say in this.

I am born under a celestial dictatorship which I could not have had any hand in choosing.

I don't put myself under its government.

I am told that it can watch me while I sleep.

I am told that it can convict me of, here's the definition of totalitarianism, thought crime.

For what I think, I may be convicted and condemned.

But if I commit a right action, it's only to evade this punishment.

And if I commit a wrong action, I'm going to be caught up.

Not just with punishment in life, but even after I'm dead.

In the Old Testament, gruesome as it is, recommending as it is, of genocide, racism, tribalism, slavery,

and the displacement and destruction of others.

Terrible as the Old Testament gods are.

They don't promise to punish the dead.

There's no talk of torturing you after the earth has closed over the Amalakites.

Only told when gentle Jesus, meek and mild, makes his appearance,

are those who won't accept the message told they must depart into everlasting fire.

Is this morality? Is this ethics I submit?

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