Dan. In response to Tim's statement:
"we do not know the ways of God"
You wrote:
"Sure we do. We know the story of Noah. The story of the Exodus. The story of Armageddon."
What makes you accept that these had anything to do with any God? Especially as you give the impression you don't accept there is no God anyway? The Exodus and Noah almost certainly never even happened. There have been several battles fought at Megiddo and, because it is on a trade route between Mesopotamia and Egypt, there are likely to be more battles there.
From another perspective: Perhaps a motive for the invasion of Iraq by the 'mentalist Christians who control the USA at present was to destroy all the evidence in Mesopotamia that shows the God of the Old Testament had simply evolved from the Mesopotamian ones. Of course there was hybridization with Egyptian ones as well, and Zoroastrians. Perhaps that's why Persia is next on their list. Egypt will be after that.
By the way, I'm still waiting for someone who believes there is a God to tell me why this God should be Jewish.
