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Christianity teaches us to love "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,.."

This "father figure" is the god who created us, so we are taught to "believe," who is as infinitely greater to us as we are to a spermatozoa.
  
A newborn infant, on the other hand, is likewise much greater than the spermatozoa from whence it, when combined with female gametes or "ova."

And the intelligence of the adult is on average of a much higher order than that of the newborn infant, in the same way that the intelligence that is said to have given birth to humanity is believed to be on a much higher order of intelligence than that of even the smartest human beings throughout history. 

Yet Christianity wishes for humanity to believe nevertheless that it can, and indeed that it must strive more than anything else, to use its own intelligence to 'infallibly' understand  that greater intelligence we call "God," even though this is like a colony of new born infants choosing to simply "believe" that they can infallibly understand the "greater intelligence" - who is "our father who art in the living room, watching football" - who created them.

And hell is the belief that if any of those new born infants fail to try to understand that intelligence, even though the very "bible" that intelligence wrote as an instruction manual assures them they will always fail at the attempt, no matter what degree of intelligence or effort the apply to it, the "father who art in the living room watching football" not only has the right to throw those babies into the furnace in his basement, but deserves to be loved more than anything else, by all those who strive "in fear and trembling" as it says in Philippians, to avoid the same fate. 

My only question is, where's the popcorn?

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