The "original sin" that the Bible accuses humanity of committing against God in the Book of Genesis, is one where Adam & Eve exercised their "free will" to pursue knowledge, agaisnt God's wishes, by eating of the fruit of the "Tree of Knowledge."
This means that God had created ape like creatures in the form of humans, but commanded those creatures - Adam & Eve - to remain more like apes than to evolve into human beings by using their "free will" to pursue knowledge. The irony being, or course, that it is the pursuit of knowledge (of God, if literally nothing else) through "free will" that Christianity champions as the one and only thing we must all do to save our sorry souls from eternal damnation.
Put another way, the punishment God imposed upon humanity for its refusal to remain as dumb as apes was to give it the cross of religion, upon which we would crucify each other in our ceaseless quest to "become like God (i.e. Christ), knowing right from wrong."
As such, humanity is only as much Adam and Eve as it is Christ himself, and with the curiosity of the former we crucify ourselves and each other like the latter. Indeed, religions convince us we should always count ourselves as martyrs worthy of heaven for dying like Christ for our sacred "beliefs," and that we should see all those "infidels" whom we crucify for their blasphemous disbelief, as being solely responsible for all of the sins and thus suffering in the world, just like Adam & Eve.
And in this way, religion elevates the importance of ordering both our world and our mind, into a religious disorder to be celebrated for its belief in God and denial of reality, once a week. Brilliant.
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