13
May
There are some people who believe that the Bible contains the actual words of their Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy, and that every word in the Bible is true. For these people, snakes can talk.
In the stupidity that is the Old Testament, chapter 3 of Genesis relates the tale of a snake that can talk trying to con Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
When Eve chose to become educated, instead of remaining ignorant, the all-merciful and loving Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy decided to punish the entire human race, every human that would ever be born, because Eve did not wish to remain uneducated.
The anti-intellectual sentiment in this preposterous ancient fairy tale is quite obvious. If you believe in the Bible, tell me, what language did The Talking Snake speak? Was it English?
It’s a very stupid story, for very stupid people. That is why we call it religion.
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