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, h*mophobic, racist, Infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, Megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, Capriciously malevolent bully