What's most insidious about the effort to vilify the God of the OT via the defective human intellect is that it dislodges our concept of "Jesus" from his root, rendering him a free-style New Age savior, attractive to the masses, which enables:

a)the false Jesus(es) to continue to flourish, and

b)the true Jesus Christ to be progressively forsaken and eventually labeled a terrorist.

The mentality is that "Jesus is awesome, as long as it's not that gross death-fixated Jewish one".