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That’s literally the whole point. I actually had a functional (as functional as it can be) conversation with one of these far right “Science is fake and evil blahblah” people recently, she outright said it.
(paraphrased as fuck)
“So you think we should not know anything about how the world around us works, or have any access to information except for the whims of some arbitrary pastor?”
“That is our natural state, Adam and Eve knew nothing and they lived in bliss. Eve ate the apple and doomed us to the misery of knowledge”
You can learn a lot about a religion by the stories they teach. In Christianity:
- Adam and Eve: Ignorance is bliss, obey Yahweh no matter what
- The story of Abraham: If God tells you to horrible things like kill your son you’d better fucking do it unquestioningly
- Job: Even if Yahweh makes you suffer miserably for a gentleman’s bet with Satan, you’d better still praise and obey him
- Noah: God will murder everyone on earth if you displease him
- Tower of Babel: don’t get too big for your britches or try to unify different societies linguistically and create great works, God hates this, stay fractured and obedient
- Doubting Thomas: skepticism is bad, suspend that disbelief
The men who claim to speak for gods teach stories about how you’d better obey and not dissent or question their gods, usually to children before they learn to think critically.
Yes. That’s correct. They accidentally came to the proper conclusion.
If god existed and his presence was evident in the world, then the more you learn the more you’d understand and accept him.
But they know that’s bullshit so they go for this strategy instead.
This is why they hate psychedelics with a passion. They enable people to get in contact with god/the universe/ reality in a spiritual way and the church made it very clean the only way you can for realizes get in contact with god is through them and the holy higher ups. Every unofficial way of connecting to god that doesn’t involve the church is actually a trap invented by Satan to deceive. I refuse to tell Christians about my spiritual experiences that converted me from being an athiest anymore because they will literally tell me my experiences are ‘wrong’.
This is literally what my Christian friend said to me when I got into university.
