
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens

It's hard to imagine anyone who is more evil than Adolf Hitler. But think for a minute about why we consider him to be so bad. The worst things he did were also done or commanded by the God of the Old Testament. I should clarify that I think that Yahweh does not actually exist outside of the imagination, so this list is an evaluation of the Biblical concept of God and a condemnation of the ancient tribe who reportedly did these evil things while claiming that their god commanded them. I hope it will cause modern Christians think twice about saying that the God of the Bible is a loving and perfectly moral being.
(Click on the checkmarks to see relevant evidence.)
Before you rise to the defense of Yahweh, please consider this statement:
To devote one's moral reflections to constructing elaborate rationales for past genocides, human sacrifices, and the like is to invite applications of similar reasoning to future actions.
-Elizabeth Anderson (The Portable Atheist, 340)