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God set out a test, and the Christians failed.

See, he instilled us with a powerful mind capable of reason, logic, compassion, etc. He gave us dominion over all the earth. And he gave us a set of lies which would betray everything good in us -- told us we were insignificant, unworthy, unable to do anything for ourselves without his help or mercy. Those who bought into this schtick (aka Christians) sickened the Almighty. But there were those who chose to ignore that hogwash and took pleasure in their god-given bodies and minds and lived as free-thinking men rather than unworthy sheep, and were good in heart not because it offered some afterlife reward but because it was the course of reason. These men lived as creators, challenging the world and the ideas around them, rather than sacrifice their given faculties for reason in favor of comfortable myths. These men passed the test and were the true receivers of God's blessings.

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A very noble picture, indeed.

Interesting, though, that most people in so-called developed nations receive 4-6 hours of instructions a day from television on exactly what to buy, what to wear, how to talk, what to believe, how to use their time, how to think (or not think), etc. and spend their lives as mindless automatons.

But the subset of them that also believe a few "myths" are the only ones squandering the "blessings" and deserving of scorn?