The god of Abel

Who is this “God” that demands the shedding of blood for the remission of sins? Creation was corrupted when plants, animals, and land became “crops”, “herds” and “property”. Abel was the first shepherd, the first one to break the will of wild sheep and possess and control them as his own as well as the land they grazed upon. Abel was the first man to shed innocent blood. The idea of “ownership” and “property” was the result of the domestication of plants and animals and is the cornerstone of civilization as we know it. Who is this “God” that looked in favor upon Abel’s’ sacrifice of bloodshed and rejected Cain’s sacrifice of the fruits of the earth?
Abel’s sacrifice was the first of many. The barbaric custom evolved into an annual massacre of the first born of the flock from every household of “God’s” “chosen people”, a requirement for the “remission of sins.” (If the household was not involved in the enterprise of domesticated sheep they could buy one at the temple; for a modest fee I’m sure.) As the lambs throat was slit and the blood drained into a basin and carried thru the temple and into the most holy of holy places behind a curtain that only the high priest could enter and not without a rope tied to his foot in case the “Lord” decided to smite him to death and poured the blood over the horns of the alter, the meat was cooked over an open fire and the priesthood indulged in the choice cuts of the meat according to their rank in the hierarchy and the wrath of the “Lord” was dissuaded because he was pleased with the aroma of the (barbeque) offering.
The domestication of sheep and man went hand in hand as the chosen people were branded and corralled according to their specific tribes to raise their flocks on their allotted territories and defend their folds against predators while eradicating “Gentiles” and nomadic-hunter-gatherer peoples that inhabited their “Promised Land.” the “Lord” had given them the land and as for the natives, he commanded that the Israelites kill them all (even women and children) and steal all of their stuff. (sound familiar?) If anyone had the testicular fortitude to speak out against the ways of the “Lord” he was commanded by the “Lord” to be stoned to death immediately by the closest person available for his blasphemy.
I don’t believe that “God” has a chosen people and I don’t think that the presence of the lord was ever concentrated enough to fit into a box or a temple for that matter. I have issues with the hierarchical priesthood concept and refuse to believe that “God” prescribed the slaughter of animals for the remission of sins, or the genocide of nomadic Muslim tribes such as the Amorites, Moabites, ect. I don’t think anyone had more issues against the religion of the Jews than Jesus Christ himself who gave his life as a ransom to set his people free from a usurious and oppressive religion.
The Jews were the first to unite commerce and religion, the business of sacrificing sheep was the cornerstone of the economy in the middle east where there wasn’t much else going on because they hadn’t discovered oil yet, so the machine ran on blood instead.
In the Jewish culture everything was commoditized from salvation to marriage, it was customary to pay the father of the bride so many head of livestock for the privilege of marrying his daughter. Girls started getting married when they were as young as 13 years old when they were considered a woman and often had very little say in who they married. (If that’s not child prostitution I don’t know what is.) The temple tithe required 10 percent of gross income, a practice that is still used by the Christians. The religion of capitalism started by the Jews still survives and has been preserved and embraced by the Christian church.
I respect Jesus and his teachings but I have come to the conclusion that the god of the Old Testament is something that was made up by a power hungry tyrant bent on controlling and possessing the world. ...the war that's going on now, another chapter of the crusades, is just a part of the script outlined in the bible...it is written, and we're acting it out like puppets with Bush and the rest of the infamadi (Zionistic fascists) pulling the strings. The earth is sacred, it is something that is not to be controlled and possessed, divided and fought over, you can't posses something that is sacred...The Man, in his sinful pride, has placed his throne above the Creator and commanded that we serve in his kingdom and bow down and worship him. If we keep feeding this satanic system with our labor, commerce, tithes and taxes and brainwashing our children to follow this "Holy" script it's gonna be a bad movie.
Generally speaking, one’s political views usually mirror their perception of God. I don’t see God as a hierarchical Deity who must be praised and obeyed to incur blessings and dissuade wrath…I believe that god is Love. Love does not lord above its beloved but exists in the midst and is one with all that is. The idea of a personified deity existing outside of his creation, an old white man with a long gray beard, sitting on a throne somewhere on a cloud in another realm, ruling over the nations with an iron scepter, is absurd to me and I don’t think “Thor” the Greek god of thunder is what Jesus was envisioning when we made references to his heavenly father.