Let's start from the beginning. In the hate-filled misogynistic book of fairy tales, commonly referred to as ‘the bible’, the beginning would be the book of Genesis. Now in the story, there was nothing. Now there wasn't just ‘nothing’ for a small fraction of time; there was ‘nothing’ forever and ever. The tale tells us that "god" had no beginning so he (I’ll call it a “he” to save typing “he/she”) just hung around an eternity of nothingness as far back as we can't imagine. Then suddenly, perhaps because of an eternity of shear boredom, this god character decided to create a planet in a remote section of a remote galaxy in a vast universe and make living creatures on it to use as play things for his amusement. And so I don't forget, this god also made light a day or two before he made the sun (which is actually a star). That was one of the first physically impossible tricks he did. He then made plants and animals and saved making the people for the end.
So he makes Adam out of dirt (another good trick). There was no cell division like we know for a fact exists now at conception. You've got this fertilized egg (single cell deal) which splits in two, then four and so on. I'm sure you catch my drift. Nope... god just "poof", out of dirt made a full grown man. Then he made a woman (not out of dirt like the guy) out of Adam's rib. Wonder if god used anesthesia. If not, that must have hurt like hell. Anyway, she was the same species, just the double X chromosomes instead of an X and a Y (and made out of two completely different materials – dirt and bone). Speaking of “Y”, why did god bother with chromosomes and DNA? Wouldn't it have been easier just to make fully formed parts instead of breaking every living thing down to a cellular level? But I digress.
So now you have a man and a woman running around a garden in the Middle East doing whatever new creatures do and they're told that they can eat whatever they want in the garden except for fruit from the tree of knowledge. Now here is where it gets interesting. Why would an omnipotent, omniscient super-being not want the creatures he created to have knowledge? What is knowledge? Knowledge is general awareness or possession of information, facts, ideas, truths or principles (although, definition #6 does say, “sexual intercourse” and with the obsession of all religions with sex, that could be what they meant). We’ll use the #1 definition as it is the most common definition of the word. One becomes aware of one’s surroundings, how things work, etc. Why would a god not want creatures he made to know anything or be aware of how things work (I’ve offered a hint here)? What kind of sick game is this god playing anyway? That's like me making my children and telling them they can have whatever they want but they can't have a cookie that I baked and put in the cookie jar. Now what is the kid going to do? It's the most ridiculous premise for an incredibly absurd fairy tale but I'll continue.
So then god, who made everything, also made this talking snake (snakes have no vocal cords). But the snake is actually Satan, who god made too. Now why would god make another very powerful creature (angel, so the story goes) who is very bad? One would think that an all knowing, all powerful god would have seen the next part coming. So the talking snake tempts Eve, the woman (yes the woman because men wrote the book and they couldn't blame the bad stuff on the man, Adam), and she eats the fruit. God must have been napping and missed the entire scene. It’s weird though, because the Xtians will tell you that god knows everything. How’d he miss that? If he was watching, why wouldn’t he stop it? And if he chose not to stop it, what kind of twisted fuck is this guy? He’s playing some pretty brutal head games with everyone involved.
OK, so now, Eve gets Adam to eat the fruit too and they suddenly realize they have no clothes on because, I don’t know, they were blind or something before that. God gets royally pissed off and decides to punish them by making them not live forever (thank “god” because that would be boring as hell) and to make Eve have pain during child birth (misogynistic bastard – Adam ate the damn fruit too).
So, yada yada yada, they end up with two boys, Cain and Abel and Cain kills his brother over jealousy (now the bible tells us later on that “god is a jealous god” and if god is completely good then this means jealousy is good… so why was Cain bad again? Anyway…). Cain is punished and sent out of the Garden of Eden where he meets a woman and they get married. NOW… hold the fuck on! Where did this other woman come from if Adam and Eve started the human race on planet Earth? If the woman was the daughter of Adam and Eve: 1. How did she manage to be outside of the garden of Eden? and 2. That would mean Cain and mystery lady number 1 are brother and sister and… well… incest… and eewwww!
Now, what we’ve all been waiting for… my point! This “creation” story is completely irreconcilable even if we had zero scientific evidence for the theory of evolution. There is (and can be) only one explanation for why a “god” would not want us to have “knowledge”. Because if we acquire knowledge we will realize that this entire “creation” story and every other theological story is pure and utter bullshit. Secondly, if a “god” were omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent he would, first of all make a perfect universe (not a hostile one), make perfect beings, never make an evil being, know everything that was ever going to happen (no need for head games or trickery) and not create a tiny little planet (in the middle of nowhere) where every living thing on it eventually dies. It does not matter at what angle you come at these tales. They defy every pattern of logic conceivable. Why is that? How can that be? I’ll tell you why/how. Men – superstitious, bronze age, racist, misogynistic, bigoted men – wrote these tales to explain their world and create a moral code which would satisfy their individual biases (bigotry, misogyny, etc.). In an ancient world where celestial events and natural disasters occurred they craved some measure of control over their environment. These tales would validate their fear and loathing of other tribes and give them control over their women (by demonizing them). Men never really knew for sure if the children were actually theirs. By inventing a god who said that women must “obey” and be completely subservient to their husbands, they were able to establish almost unmitigated control over their wives and ensure their own “immortality” through their offspring.
DNA can now verify paternity. The big bang theory is a solid explanation for why the universe is here. Evolution is a theory (with oodles of evidence) of why we humans are here. It is no longer necessary to invent fairy tales to explain our world. Every human being regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, deserves to be treated well based on a system of altruism, not on an ancient system of superstition.
With our current scientific, testable, provable knowledge of our world, all religions in this third millennium are rendered moot.
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