A small thanks to the resident Theists..

[Cyberman]

"God wants use to rely on Him for our answers, being omniscient He can guide us to truth in His word. There's nothing wrong with His word, it's humans that make the controversies, people have a desire to be better or know more than others (self righteous)."

This is the sort of education that we currently use all the way up to the end of Junior school. The teacher tells us and we learn it.

As education progresses, however, there is more and more encouragement, and need, to find the answers on our own. The lessons at this stage of our education are the fundamental basis of the development of everything about us. Teaching kids to think for themselves, and research for themselves is absolutely critical.

It is the desire to be better, or to know more (not really than others - that 's a projection) that drives us forward. There is nothing self-righteous about it. Its just part of an innate desire to understand, explore and then possibly utilize.

This is really an interesting way to look at it. I've never been a parent, nor is it likely I shall ever be, but I have been a child. One thing parents ought to want for their child is for that child to grow and develop into something more than they themselves contributed. When first born, children are little data-collecting machines incessantly hoovering up information. After a time, quite early on in their development I think, a critical mass is achieved and they suddenly outgrow the knowledge they acquire; they become more than simply the sum of their amassed facts and start to interpret, to question. They ask the two most key questions in the Universe: "how" and "why". From that point on, they - ideally - are capable of realising their potential to change the world, even if it's only their little corner of it.

Does this "God" not want that for its children, for them to think for themselves independently of its o'erweaning instruction? If so, that makes it one shitty parent and all the more reason to deny, defy and decry it.