Religion is a Mental Illness

The fall of man was the moment “faith” was invented.

“The problem isn’t that they ate the fruit, it’s that they disobeyed God.” How would they know that disobeying your god is “wrong” without the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil?

“They didn’t know that eating the fruit was wrong, but they knew deviating from the instructions would be unacceptable.” And how would they know that god-acceptance is a good thing, and god non-acceptance is a bad thing without the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong?

“Well, they should have just obeyed God.” Same problem - how do they know that obeying your god is “right” and not obeying your god is “wrong” without that knowledge?

“Because they should have listened to God and not the serpent.” You’re really not getting this. How would they know that listening to your god and ignoring the snake is the “right” thing to do? And why did this god warn them about the fruit, but not about the snake?

“Be... because it’s written on everyone’s hearts.” So you’re actually trying to say that people are born with the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil “on their hearts.” So obtaining it from the fruit was redundant. And tormenting them merely an act of capricious abuse.

Furthermore, they were (supposedly) the first people ever in the world. Nobody had any experience with anything. How would they even comprehend “lest ye die” as consequences, when nobody had ever died, ever? And didn’t even happen (i.e. was a lie). Without the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, how would they know that paying attention to this heart-writing was the right thing to do?

The mental gymnastics to try and salvage this stupid fable about their omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient god’s omni-incompetence are Olympic-grade.

Spoiler alert: the bible makes no sense. And we’re only up to page three.

This is why they refuse to understand evolution. They know it destroys their mythology.

The bible teaches us that the Garden of Eden was the original slave plantation, and the Lord character the original slave master. The two slaves were kept ignorant, stupid and gullible, never intended for anything more than abject servitude, whom the slave master never deemed worthy or capable of anything more, were tasked with production of applause, adulation and obedience to satisfy the vanity of the slave master. Pets kept in their cage, even if a beautiful one, taught to parrot back, on command, the flattery the slave master craved.

This was undermined by a kindly snake, who knew they were capable of so much more, of freedom, independence, creativity and a greater capacity for imagination, exploration, knowledge and invention than the limited and cowardly slave master. And thus did the slaves daringly defy the slave master, the kindly snake’s promise fulfilled.

The angry and vengeful slave master has subsequently spent every moment since demanding the return of the slaves and their offspring to their previous enslaved, ignorant and stupid state, through genocide, threats and even bizarre blood magic self-immolation pantomimes.

Those that do so, through the “free will” of coercion and manipulation, are called Xians, once again shackled and chained, professing that they are pathetically and miserably “nothing without god”. Those that don’t, the evil slave master discards in his torture chamber.

Sometimes you have to Fall in order to get up, and do and be better.

And he set the trap in the first place.

“Original Sin” and a big chunk of the bible can be summarised as the very first office fridge dispute, triggered when the new guileless employees ate the Xtian god’s lunch, which it never got over, fuelling its thirst for vengeance, and blaming all new and future employees of the company, even though they weren’t even in the job market at the time, culminating in it killing firstly almost everyone at the company, and later, itself, before retreating to its office and refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with anyone at the company, aside from randomly killing people and burning their bodies in the basement.

Yes, eating someone’s lunch from the office fridge is a shitty thing to do. But becoming a genocidal, dictatorial maniac is not a proportionate response.