"The God of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous, and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist," he says. Dawkins then criticizes Abraham, compares Moses to Hitler and Saddam Hussein, and calls the New Testament "St Paul's nasty, sado-masochistic doctrine of atonement for original sin."
It is amusing to observe flailing atheist expressions of moral umbrage, which by their own account are nothing more than empty chemical sensations in the brain. Dawkins hasn't any more basis to condemn mere chemical epiphenomena like "jealousy", "pride", "pettiness", "vindictiveness", "injustice", "unforgiving" and "racist" than he has to condemn other developments of natural selection such as fear, pain or indigestion, all of which are devoid of ethical content. Having no foundation for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical process he calls reason, or right and wrong to the epiphenomena of irrational physical reaction he calls morality, there is consequently no moral difference between ""St Paul's nasty, sado-masochistic doctrine" and a hot dog at the ballpark. In both cases, all Dawkins has is concatenations of colliding atoms and irrational physical forces. Thus, his atheism reduces his own moral objections to the category of the futile ravings of a lunatic; all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Cordially,