God's all-time greatest bloopers and practical jokes:
where god went wrong: In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. --Douglas Adams
more of god's greatest mistakes: If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on the creation, I would have recommended something simpler. --Alfonso X., the King of Castile.
who is this God person anyway? The name of this monstrous absurdity is original sin. To hold, as a man's sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.
--Ayn Rand (writing as John Galt) Then, on the same topic in another volume (writing as herself):
What of the child who withdraws in terror...because he cannot cope with the ravings of parents who tell him that he is guilty by nature, that his body is evil, that thinking is sinful, that question-asking is blasphemous, that doubting is depravity, and that he must obey the orders of a supernatural ghost because, if he doesn't, he will burn forever in hell?
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