APB #6: If only Adam and Eve didn't sin....

This blog post is going to be about what would have happened if Adam and Eve didn't eat the 'forbidden fruit'. Obviously I'm an atheist, so I don't believe the story actually happened—but, I'm going to play the devil's advocate here (pun intended).

According to the Bible, Adam and Eve sinned because they ate a fruit, and then became embarrassed about their nudity. This caused them to cover their genitalia—which apparently angered God (God lost his eye candy). If Adam and Eve didn't sin by eating the fruit, all humans would still be naked. This shows that God's intention is for people to not wear clothes (i.e be naked), and that wearing clothes is unnatural/against God's will.

Isn't that such a heartwarming story?

What is the message behind it?

Don't eat fruit that will make you wear clothes?

It's as if God wanted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit...why else would he put the damn tree there?

The tree the fruit came from is called the "tree of knowledge of good and evil". Apparently being naked is evil, but why would God want people to not be aware of what is good and what is evil?

From an objective perspective, it's a weird story (a weird story among many in the bible). That's the nice thing about being an atheist, I don't need to seriously ponder such questions—unlike a Christian who has to make sense of nonsense like that. 

Bible quote of the day - Samuel 15:1-9 GNB

This is the start of this blog's daily discussion of the bible. If a person looks at the bible from an atheistic perspective, I believe the evil contained within it becomes much more clear. The following story is from the book of Samuel, and it is a good example of the evil contained within the "Good Book". As you will soon see, the bible condones the genocide of innocent people. If you are a Christian reading this, ask yourself if this is your god, if not, perhaps you should better reflect on the ideas you worship.

Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one whom the Lord sent to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord Almighty say.

So apparently the "Lord Almighty" was too lazy to speak for himself—that or Samuel was a liar (yes, even people during biblical times were capable of lying)....

He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. 

 That seems fair, punish a group of people for what their ancestors did—they are completely responsible for the things that happened when they weren't even born yet. And this is a just god?...

Go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.

 Do I need to explain why this is horrible?

Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah. 

Overkill much?

Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed. He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israaelites when they came from Egypt: "Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them." So the Kenites left. 

Aww, how nice of them :)   In other words, "if you don't leave your homes we will murder the shit outta you...oh, and thanks for helping our ancestors....."

Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt; he captured King Agag of Amalek alive and killed all the people. But Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good; they destroyed only what was useless or worthless. 

No Christian can claim abortion, murder, and/or genocide is immoral using religious "values" when the source of those values (the bible) has this terrible story in it. This story is found in the bible: Samuel 15:1-9 GNB.



Doesn't this biblical story just give you that warm fuzzy feeling? Apparently it's moral to murder children if your leader claims God ordered it. It just goes to show that people will do insanely immoral things if they believe God wants it (e.g. Islamic terrorism, Westboro Baptist Church, KKK). How can a Christian be aware of such a story, and still believe their God is all-loving? Having a group of 210,000 men go into a city and commit genocide on an innocent group of people (they are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they weren't there).

Christians believe atheists are immoral, but what is more immoral than worshiping such ideas (God is an evil idea)? Either the Old Testament god was real or not, if that god isn't real (no actual evidence to suggest it is) then the nonsense in the  New Testament isn't real either (for obvious reasons). I hope this is just a story, if it is based on actual historical events imagine how horrible of a scene that must have been. Be aware that it was common for leaders to claim divine authority in the past, and we all know that leaders are often sociopathic liars (high rate of cheating on spouses, and being caught for lying in general).


Atheistic moral lesson:
It is immoral to hate a group of people because of what their ancestors did. It is also immoral to blindly follow a leader because they claim authority from a god (why politicians need to keep religion out of politics).

Slavery In The Bible

This is a good documentary that doesn't have nearly enough views.

The bible is filled with slavery. Even Jesus appears to have supported slavery. This just shows that the moral structure layed out in the bible is a little bit outdated (to put it gently). For those bible-thumpers, slavery is not morally wrong (if it was the bible would have condemned it, not endorsed it). Maybe people should create a new religion, with a new set of morality, for believers to latch their faith onto (perhaps with more unicorns and less rape, murder, and slavery).

When I was a Christian, I would read the bible all the time (wanted to know what I was suppose to believe in). What probably threw my faith off the most was the parts that talked about rape and the brutal murdering of babies (that God apparently endorsed), but also slavery. It was easy for me to see that the bible was not a good book to get morality from. It was primarily reading the bible that killed my faith. This is why I believe that all Christians should read the bible from cover-to-cover. Most Christians that actually read the bible are forced to step back and ask themselves a few big, obvious questions. The bible has probably created more atheists than anything else. As a culture, we have out-grown the bible (and other similar holy-books), and that is the cause behind the rise of atheism (many contradictions).