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.
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:
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.