Scott Talkington

“According to the Exodus story, millions of escaped slaves were traumatized and tortured in the desert for four decades by Yahweh playing all manner of scary tricks and mind games on them. If the tale were true, such behavior would be condemnable as the practice of a bizarre and anti-human cult with an evil god. If the “chosen people” were so “stiff-necked” that they needed 40 years of being terrorized and abused in the desert, while alternately astonished by mind-bending miracles, one wonders why the all-powerful God would choose them in the first place.”
― D.M. Murdock, Did Moses Exist?: The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver

“It was obvious to me that the power would never extend much beyond the perimeter of Paradise.”
― Andrew Cunningham, Eden Lost

“Long lifespans would have the opposite effect,” she continued.  “The longer you live, the more you learn and the more valuable and effective your personal experience becomes, resulting in a deeper cultural knowledge base.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Desert of Glass

“Tempest Stele sounds more like the archetypal battle between the sun/storm god and the sea, resembling also the mythical control of a meteorological phenomenon.”
― D.M. Murdock, Did Moses Exist?: The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver