But that book is the only thing that keeps them from going on murderous rampages. Coming to think of it, it's not even very good at stopping the murderous rampages.
Israel - Palestine is two non-Christian abrahamic religions fighting each other currently. Then of course there's Catholics and Protestants, and all the different Muslim - Christian conflicts.
Definitely not as sex slaves, as a certain religious person I know argues, as apparently that would be intermarriage and forbidden! They just have to live with the trauma of having their entire family brutally murdered before them, and then being enslaved to the murderers for the rest of their lives. So much better!
A narcissistic asshole gaslighting its victims into believing they’re not really victims because the narcissistic asshole made a bet.
It’s supposed the be an explanation for how evil can exist despite a benevolent creator… but it sums up as a sock puppet to which the explanation is “you wouldn’t understand”