From author, columnist, researcher, activist, media personality John Kaminski:

How can a man who claims he gets his orders from God preside over the senseless slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq after lying to the nation he leads about the reasons he ordered the mass murder to begin with? Is that man simply insane? Or is the God he pretends to talk to insane?

What about all those people who go to church on Sunday and believe what they are told without digging any deeper?...What are we to make of America's evangelical Christians, who support President Bush's campaign of mass murder throughout the world based on the twisted logic...in the pages of the Old Testament?

Nathaniel Merritt has constructed a very clear and compelling description of the true intent of the Old Testament...This is not the consensus conception of God in the minds of any compassionate and conscious human being.

Most importantly to us contemporary humans, what kind of light does this put on our current debate, with a murderous president establishing all these "faith-based initiatives," with millions of evangelical so-called Christians clamoring for the death and destruction of dark-skinned Muslims...Isn't it obvious that this God so many use to justify their evil deeds is exactly the opposite, and is instead the hateful beast Jesus supposedly preached against?

One need only look out into the world and see the dead innocents bleeding in the radioactive dust of Iraq to know that the God used to justify these wanton acts of pure evil is certainly not the supreme being we all turn to in times of stress, and who showers his love on all life in the universe...If you try to deny this assertion, may God - the real one, not the ancient sociopath - forgive you.
http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/04/0929-jehovah.html

Dear Nathaniel:

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I just finished reading Jehovah Unmasked and it's the best book I've ever read! It finally brings the pieces of the puzzle together, at least for me. You and I are the same age. Although I have never attended a service with the JW's, I did read the Watchtower on numerous occassions. I also dabbled with Buddhism. Over the last 20 years I've struggled to comprehend how an all loving God would want to inflict so much pain and suffering on his children? Isn't it amazing the things that organized (Or as I refer to it, disorganized religion) taught us as children: God loves you! You are going to Hell, but God loves you! Sex is filthy, dirty, and disgusting, and you should save it for the one you really love! Okay, that's "not" exactly what I was told, but that's what I heard!

I will strongly encourage everyone I meet to read your book and I myself will continue to seek spiritual fellowship with the true God of Love.

Blessings,
Steve Harper

Dear Rev. Merritt:

Thanks for a GREAT book!I had always wondered why the Jewish religious leaders of the day, got so mad at Jesus! I just could not figure out why they would hate someone who went around preaching love and kindness! I am certainly no Bible scholar, and a mere beginner with Gnosticism, but things make a lot more sense to me now! I think I would have gotten really upset too, if someone were telling me that I had been worshiping Satan from the beginning!! Jesus had a LOT of courage, and so have you!

Thanks again!

Florence Algar
Canada.

Mr. Merritt,

I want to thank you for this clearly understandable view of the biblical story from the Gnostic perspective. I had tried to read some books on this but had a tough time fully understanding them. But after reading your book "Jehovah Unmasked" it has really opened my eyes. I understand why Jehovah of the Old Testement always made me feel uneasy and creeped out. He was downright scary and even evil to his own people. Yet Jesus didn't preach punishment and hatred for failing mankind. The God he worshipped and honored was so different than the one on the OT. The True God, the Heavenly Father is now found to me.

I wish there were some Gnostic Ministers here in North Carolina, but I realize that it is going to be an uphill battle against Jewish & Christian fundamentalist who keep tying Jesus to the OT jehovah gods. I live in the bible belt and it will be resisted here.

I feel set free, I even prayed yesterday something I haven't done in 5 years since becoming an Deist. I feel like Jesus words have meaning again.

Thanks so much,

Mr. & Mrs. Howard Baker

Rev. Merritt illustrates a powerful personal journey that many people can relate to but may not yet have made themselves. Like our individualized personalities, our conclusions to cosmic conundrums may be different. Nevertheless, JEHOVAH UNMASKED represents another nail in the biblical coffin that contains a mummified and rotten god belonging to the violent barbarians and troglodytes of the Stone Age.

From Acharya S, Archaeologist, Historian, Mythologist, Linguist, Member of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens Greece, Fellow of The Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion,Author of The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, and Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled.

Dear Nathaniel,

I am enjoying the daylights out of your book. I'm not entirely through as I'm reading slow and careful. I'm finding the second half a lot more enjoyable than the first. Had some difficulty with your advancing the idea Adam was to select a mate from the animals as I believed (and taught) that it wasn't until seeing the mates of the animals he was assigned to name that he realized there was no counterpart to himself. After which he became lonely.

So I looked up your reference in my Jerusalem Bible and have to admit you were right. How is it a man can read the Bible over and over and not see what is right in front of his eyes? How is it "Jehovah of Armies," and "Jehovah is a mighty man of war," never sunk in? And dashing babies against the wall? Not a god I care to be friendly with.

It is obvious your book is the truth Nathaniel, and my last love for Jehovah (or was it fear) has fallen away like rusted-on scales I thought would be hanging on forever. I am most grateful for what you've done.

You must take a lot of heat for publishing this, but so does everyone who takes a stand for the truth. I have been taking shit from the blind and ignorant since grade school. Principals and teachers included. And for some reason I have never been attracted to Jesus. Not ever. I like the things he said and the way he conducted himself, but the way people treat him really turns me off. In my eyes he's a man much like myself, and I do not believe he wanted to be worshipped or even looked up to.

Well, thanks to you I'm a free man Nathaniel Merritt. After all these years of struggle, here it seems I've only crossed the bay, and now some great ocean I never saw before lies before me. I hope to live long enough to make some sense out of it all.

Thanks for all you've done my friend. People often say that if only one person benefits from the things they've written then all their effort will have been worth the while. Well, if you've thought that yourself Nathaniel, here's your man right here - with a warm smile and a handshake.

Hope to be waiting for you on the other side. Be nice to sit and talk a while. My beard might well be to my waist by then, my hair as well. Most likely I'll be smoking one of my beloved pipes.

All the best,
Bob Garland
Franklin, Massachusetts