(July 19, 2011 at 2:20 am)Kayenneh Wrote: The question about original sin puzzled me exceedingly as a child. I loved to learn (still do), but I could never understand why Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit of knowledge. Knowledge, that made you understand things, made you wiser, and this was to be forbidden? The god that asks it's followers to be ignorant is truly an asshole, knowledge will never be seen as sin by me.
The $64 question. Why would a loving God declare knowledge to be sinful? And if Adam and Eve had subsequentially eaten from the Tree of Life after the Tree of Knowledge, instead of sewing fig leaves together because they were shamed by the bodies God created, would they have lived forever with knowledge?
Why is Christianity superior to other religions (forget atheism for a moment), other than its holy book says so (and it doesn't even say that, Christians just interpret it that way)?
The Principia Discordia says many things about life, the universe, and everything, and precious little of it makes sense. The difference here being the writers of Eris's holy book know the book to be nonsense. Believers in the Bible (as opposed to readers of the Bible) do not seem to understand, or mind, that the Bible makes no more sense than the Principia. At least Discordians are honest about their religious beliefs: they know they are BS from the first to the last word of the book.
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
