Since I began studying the great philosophers, in particular Neitzsche, I've found myself considering at even greater length the paradoxical nature of the Christian religion. This thought process has only been exacerbated by a number of personal experiences. Somewhere along the line, I came to a realization of my own accord in terms of the specifics that really illustrates many of Neitzsche's points, and that is the most fundamental and most often repeated story in the Bible: the story of Adam, Eve, and the apple.
We all know how it goes. Eve was tempted, ate the apple, and tricked Adam into eating it, thus condemning him to the same life of damnation she earned herself (in true female fashion, am I right, guys?). What eats away at me about the whole story is that nobody ever questions why the apple was forbidden. Well, God said not to eat from that one tree, so what more do you need to know? What was that one tree again? Oh yeah, it was the tree of knowledge. Allow me to say that again. It was the tree of FUCKING KNOWLEDGE!!!
All the land in paradise was theirs for the taking, and yet their only rule was that they could not possess knowledge. This, to me, perfectly illustrates the point that education is the truly enemy of religion., and that faith and all it's supposed benefits can come only through ignorance.
You know, I could really go for an apple right about now.
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