In truth, Adam & Eve probably disobeyed God because they were starving, as much for food as knowledge.
Religion teaches people to value knowledge of God as more valuable than knowledge of anything else. In the story of the Garden of Eden, the serpent lured Adam & Eve to eat the fruit of “forbidden knowledge.”
The only knowledge that God expressly prohibited human beings from eating of, in other words, was knowledge of God himself.
The cross is a dead tree, the fruit of which is Jesus, which Christians eat once a week, for the sole purpose of obtaining knowledge of God, the only knowledge God prohibited Adam & Eve from obtaining. The very sin Christianity claims got us into this mess in the first place, is now the only thing that can save us from what we’ve become.
This is like Dr Jekyll trying to rid himself of Mr. Hyde by drinking more of the elixir that only turns him into Mr. Hyde, and then insisting the only problem is that he simply hasn’t drunk enough over the last two thousand years, even though the more of it he drinks the worse Mr. Hyde becomes. It’s also like getting out of debt by spending more, or beating a burglary rap by murdering a god.
Adam & Eve had to disobey, of course, for how else could God justify murdering his own son, much like the Roman Emperor Constantine did, when he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire? Clearly, murdering your own son is how God became la cosa nostra.
Brilliantly of course, God could only forgive himself for creating Adam & Eve by murdering his only beloved son, and pinning the blame on the henchman he hired to do the job - the clergy, with 10% of annual income mandated by the Bible being the equivalent of the gold pieces Judas received for putting a hit on Jesus (who then got the state government to do it for them at tax payer expense).- whom he blessed with the knowledge of how to teach people to keep themselves hypnotized by repeating memorized chants they call “prayers,” as if their eternal souls depended on it.
And all of it to hide the fact that is Jesus was an innocent man who was crucified for our transgressions, making human salvation the result of the greatest injustice God could conceive of.
Now that’s justice!
Religion teaches people to value knowledge of God as more valuable than knowledge of anything else. In the story of the Garden of Eden, the serpent lured Adam & Eve to eat the fruit of “forbidden knowledge.”
The only knowledge that God expressly prohibited human beings from eating of, in other words, was knowledge of God himself.
The cross is a dead tree, the fruit of which is Jesus, which Christians eat once a week, for the sole purpose of obtaining knowledge of God, the only knowledge God prohibited Adam & Eve from obtaining. The very sin Christianity claims got us into this mess in the first place, is now the only thing that can save us from what we’ve become.
This is like Dr Jekyll trying to rid himself of Mr. Hyde by drinking more of the elixir that only turns him into Mr. Hyde, and then insisting the only problem is that he simply hasn’t drunk enough over the last two thousand years, even though the more of it he drinks the worse Mr. Hyde becomes. It’s also like getting out of debt by spending more, or beating a burglary rap by murdering a god.
Adam & Eve had to disobey, of course, for how else could God justify murdering his own son, much like the Roman Emperor Constantine did, when he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire? Clearly, murdering your own son is how God became la cosa nostra.
Brilliantly of course, God could only forgive himself for creating Adam & Eve by murdering his only beloved son, and pinning the blame on the henchman he hired to do the job - the clergy, with 10% of annual income mandated by the Bible being the equivalent of the gold pieces Judas received for putting a hit on Jesus (who then got the state government to do it for them at tax payer expense).- whom he blessed with the knowledge of how to teach people to keep themselves hypnotized by repeating memorized chants they call “prayers,” as if their eternal souls depended on it.
And all of it to hide the fact that is Jesus was an innocent man who was crucified for our transgressions, making human salvation the result of the greatest injustice God could conceive of.
Now that’s justice!
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