re: #154 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Ha! Glad I wasn’t sipping coffee when I read that first paragraph.

To the second, I imagine that was probably part of it (the cult thing), but I was sticking to the text as we have it now and how it’s interpreted by fundamentalists/evangelicals in the U.S. They don’t really mention anything about goddess worship. :)

Well, they like to pretend that there was only One God, and the other “gods” and “goddesses” mentioned in the OT are false idols. In fact, Yahweh, Baal, Asherah, El, etc., were part of the Canaanite pantheon. Yahweh ended up the winner in the popularity contest, because his followers managed to wipe out everyone else, I suspect.