My all-important post got lost in the maelstrom earlier, so here it is again:
Yeah, but your God isn't my God, nor is it the God of the majority of the people on this planet, so...
And there's a difference between ruling over something and boiling it alive. And why the hell does the God of the Bible always talk to himself in the plural? Let "us" make man in "our" image... I guess monotheism is a relative term. Although I know that the term used to describe God at the beginning of Genesis is "Elohim", being the plural of "Eloah", meaning "the Celestials". Whenever you read the name "God" in the modern english translations of the Old Testament, it should instead read "the Celestials". Probably aliens.