QUOTE : This is the caricature of PSA that Young clumsily props up so that he might clumsily knock it down. Referring to a bloodthirsty god who needs to have his sense of righteous indignation appeased, Young wants readers to think he is distinguishing a merciful, gracious God from a pagan conception of a capricious deity. Instead, he diminishes the holiness of God, downplays the seriousness of sin, and dismisses biblical language about God’s ways with men.