Bible Made Me Atheist?

In this episode, Jay Forrest argues that reading the Bible should lead not to atheism but to rejecting Christianity’s portrayal of God, highlighting passages that depict a cruel, tribal deity he sees as the god of ancient Israel rather than the true Divine Source. From a Deist perspective, he encourages listeners to set aside this flawed biblical image in favor of the rational “God of the Philosophers,” a just and unified Creator revealed through reason, natural law, and the harmony of the cosmos rather than through the inventions of power‑seeking priests and politicians.