It seems that only an atheist can see how the apple in the garden of Eden - the one that is said to have seduced humanity into believing it could "become like God, knowing right from wrong," as the serpent promised - is none other than religion itself.
It is only those who eat the fruit of that tree that indeed claim to know "right from wrong," as if they were God. Christianity, after all, is nothing but a call for people to "become like God," from eating of the "fruit of the vine," which is the zombified corpse of a man who is celebrated everywhere in the world for being the very thing that Adam and Eve sought to become when they ate the "forbidden fruit" in the Garden of Eden.
In fact, both stories are about "gardens," one being Eden and the other being Gethsemane, in which a person is said to eat of the fruit of the vine. The only difference is that one of those fruits is forbidden, and the other is said to now be needed to undo the sinful effects caused by the first.
Of course, there is not a single shred of evidence to support the idea that we possess a "soul," a soul, mind you, which was allegedly poisoned by eating from one tree and subsequently only cured by eating from the other.
That the former "tree" was apparently all natural and the latter was a man made instrument of torture and death, does not for a moment cause the Christian to hesitate in their willingness to completely believe as much in their Church, their priests, and their popes, as Adam & Eve were willing to believe everything they had been sold by the serpent.
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