Now if we’d all been taught right by our so-called shepherds, we wouldn’t have spent a lifetime being intentionally shielded from the fact that our Gods lie to us whenever They feel like it. Yahweh has never hidden the fact that He lies—He does it right in front of us on several occasions in the Old Testament. Also in the Old Testament Yahweh comes right out and says that every nasty thing that happens to us in this world is because of Him. In other words, God does evil. But here again, if you say this to Christians today, they go spastic. Why? Because they’ve once again decided that if God does evil—if He’s really responsible for all the pain and ugliness in this world—then He can’t be good, He can’t be trustworthy, etc., etc. Well, this is just silliness. We humans have made up a bunch of ridiculous rules about what two traits God can’t have at the same time, and now our own rules have us all bound up in a bunch of fear.