He told
His peculiar people, "If any one teaches a different religion, kill
him!" He did not say, "Try and convince him that he is wrong," but
"kill him." He did not say, "I am in the miracle business, and I will
convince him," but "kill him." He said to every husband, "If your
wife, that you love as you love your own soul, says, 'let us go and
worship other gods,' then 'Thy hand shall be first upon her and she
shall be stoned with stones until she dies.'" Well, now, I hate a God
of that kind, and I cannot think of being nearer heaven than to be away
from Him. A God tells a man to kill his wife simply because she
differs with him on religion! If the real God were to tell me to kill
my wife, I would not do it. If you had lived in Palestine at that time,
and your wife--the mother of your children--had woke up at night and
said "I am tired of Jehovah. He is always turning up that board-bill.
He is always telling about whipping the Egyptians. He is always
killing somebody. I am tired of Him. Let us worship the sun. The sun
has clothed the world in beauty; it has covered the earth with green
and flowers; by its divine light I first saw your face; its light has
enabled me to look into the eyes of my beautiful babe. Let us worship
the sun, father and mother of light and love and joy." Then what would
it be your duty to do--kill her? Do you believe a real God ever did
that? Your hand should be first upon her, and when you took up some
ragged rock and hurled it against the white bosom filled with love for
you, and saw running away the red current of her sweet life, then you
would look up to heaven and receive the congratulations of the infinite
fiend whose commandments you had to obey. I guess the Bible was not
inspired about religious liberty. Let me ask you right here: Suppose,
as a matter of fact, God gave those laws to the Jews and told them
"whenever a man preaches a different religion, kill him," and suppose
that afterwards the same God took upon Himself flesh, and came to the
world and taught and preached a different religion, and the Jews
crucified Him--did He not reap exactly what He sowed?

May be this book is inspired about war. God told the Israelites to
overrun that country, and kill every man, woman and child for defending
their native land. Kill the old men? Yes. Kill the women?
Certainly. And the little dimpled babes in the cradle, that smile and
coo in the face of murder--dash out their brain