Scotty

I am sure I am repeating things, but here goes:

Genesis and the Fruit:

A tree with a fruit that is forbidden to eat. This fruit contains "knowledge of good and evil", obviously good and evil includes nudity (which I didn't know was evil, or maybe it is good?) because they felt shame or embarrassment, which I didn't know was evil either.
Now, wouldn't it make sense that since "good and evil" weren't known by Adam and Eve, that disobeying God's orders wouldn't be considered evil/bad?
If nudity is evil (or good) so must disobedience. Hence, they didn't know any better, there were as a child.

That doesn't make sense, God sure didn't think that out too well.

But then I realized something else. If eating a fruit because somebody told you not to is enough of a "sin" to punish you with death (or eternal damnation take your pick), then other seemingly worse offenses would end up being justified by death.

Things like adultery, or homosexuality. These offenses would seem so terrible and unjust by the "Analogy of Fruit Death", that I could see why people would feel justified in killing somebody for that act.

It also leads people to think that they are horrible people for other minor acts. If "Fruit causes death" is all you have to do to gain God's wrath, then masturbating should at the very least mean you are the most horrible human being on the planet, and should really be put to death...

Masturbate=God's wrath (might as well be death)
Swear=God's wrath (might as well be death)
Adultery=death
Eat a fruit=death
Don't believe what I believe=death

No wonder people have such low self-esteems and think they are no good. How does this stuff survive for 2000 years (or whenever it was written)?

It is like everyone who believes this must be kept in a perpetual state of childhood, otherwise once they grew up, they would shrug it off like a bad dream.

What does this all lead to? Can you imagine what this would lead to?

I don't have to say do I?

-Scott

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Scotty

Some times I feel like a theist, mars don't.

-Scott

Scotty

I will have to start talking to my invisible friends again...anybody seen John Nash?

-Scott