You may think you are familiar with three of the most important Biblical figures: Abraham, Moses and St Paul. You may have a Hollywood image in your head of noble, heroic men, inspired by God and doing his holy work. Think again. It's time to discover the sordid truth.
Abraham was the world's first recorded psychopath, willing to slaughter his own son as a human sacrifice to his "God". Moses was a prince of Egypt, and one of the followers of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten. The Hebrews loathed him and wanted to kill him, eventually succeeding at the foot of Mount Sinai, the Mountain of "God", during the massacre of the "golden calf".
St Paul was a high priest of the cult of Mithras who had the audacity to blend it with Judaic Messianism, giving birth to the bizarre religion of Christianity.