Rotten To The Core

When we go back to the very beginning in the Bible with the Adam and Eve story, God banished them from paradise because they disobeyed God’s command, which was not to eat from the forbidden tree, which is called 'Original Sin'. But how is this by any stretch of the imagination, passed off and socially accepted? My suspicion is that they don’t imagine. But religious apologists often cite that it was because of Mankind’s ‘free will’ despite the logical inevitability that God knew all along that they would commit the Original Sin.

But the problem that I have the most is how can God justifiably ‘punish’ his alleged favourite creations for acquiring knowledge of good and evil, when they had no prior knowledge of good and evil? It would be like telling a 2-month-old baby that she’s not allowed to play with a certain toy. Then assuming she understood what you just said to her, walking out the room, coming back to find her playing with the toy, and then saying “I told you!” and booting her out of the house because she disobeyed you. It’s insane. You wouldn’t find it morally acceptable in any other context, would you? The issue of ‘free will’ aside, it still wouldn’t be morally justified even if Adam and Eve (and Mankind) did (does) have free will.

But it doesn’t matter whether the story is true or not. The point is that it’s the beginning of concept behind the Christian ideology. Jesus then came to forgive us of our sins, which stems from Original Sin. The central core behind Christianity, and indeed all the Abrahamic faiths, is that “You are created sick, and commanded to be well” as Christopher Hitchens so eloquently put it. I find it morally repugnant and offensive to human dignity.

‘You cannot be ‘well’ if you do not accept Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour’, is the rotten foul stench that has revolted me most about Christian dogma. Anyone who wishes to accept this as a moral basis to their life or to pretend that it makes them a better person because of it is a fool and wishes to be a slave. The entire point as to why Jesus died on the cross is because humans are foul sinful and shameless beings, which God allegedly created in the first place.

And above everything else, it gets even more stupid once you realise the inevitable conclusion that God doesn’t exist.