[TrisB]

Whether in jest or not, this statement:

[Silly people. Dawkins has been trying patiently to explain it to you. He is the one who is omniscient, so it's clear that all who disagree with him, including the writers of the Old Testament, were tragically wrong. If only Mr. Dawkins had been alive then to enlighten them.]

..is very unfair. Dawkins never claims to know everything, and accusing him him sarcastically of this is obviously useless. How can you possibly discredit someone on the grounds that they don't know everything?

[TChris]

..is very unfair. Dawkins never claims to know everything, and accusing him him sarcastically of this is obviously useless. How can you possibly discredit someone on the grounds that they don't know everything?

You've got to be joking!

Dawkins is judging the writings of the Old Testament by his own standards of modern-day political correctness. Notice that he even uses the modern terms for his criticisms. He's just served up a custom-flavored version of begging the question: There is no God, because God wouldn't establish a morality that is so offensive to me. He presumes to know how a personal God should and would behave at the same time that he disputes the very possibility!

That's a particularly special kind of hubris.