How can we condemn Hitler or Stalin when we make God an eternal Hitler. This God is reprehensible! If we started slow roasting Christians in chains for years, and told them all they needed to do is relinquish this despicable belief, they'd change really quick! And is it bad of me to say? No...
Paul gets a lot of flack, and not to beat the proverbial drum, but he's not as bad as his context, and he was nowhere near the hell raiser John was. Really, almost not at all. His views on women, gays, Jews, all taken largely out of context, but Paul was such a complex thinker, he is not easy to...