Christianity Loves Ignorance

Christianity Loves Ignorance

How the Bible trains you to not be observant or a critical thinker

The Bible reinforces from the offset that you shouldn’t think too much, and that somehow knowledge is something that coincides with the concept of sin.

The original sin was mankind being curious and seeking to eat something that gave them more knowledge…

22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:-Genesis 3:22

Some Christians try to argue that this was just “knowing good and evil”, but if we put on our thinking caps and see the various other stories that this was likely taken from we see that the gift of “knowledge” is a running theme in origin stories. In the Sumerian story of the Garden, it was Enki giving knowledge of civilization to man, and in Greek mythology, it was Prometheus giving fire to man.

So it isn’t a stretch to assume that this was more than just knowledge of “good and evil”.

For instance, the humans realize they are naked. Why would that be something included with the knowledge of “good and evil”? Was it “evil” to be naked? Then why would God want them walking around naked?

The church even teaches that our imaginations are evil.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.-Genesis 6:5 (KJV)

So you shouldn’t seek knowledge, and shouldn’t be too creative using your imagination, after all, it’s just ways for the devil to lead you astray!

10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.-Jeremiah 13:10 KJV