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Well, sure, destroying the ecological balance would punish future generations.
But the tale of Adam Eve and the talking snake (who formerly had legs, until Phht! De Lawd removed them from him and all his offspring was not in any way about the ecological balance.

Jehovah said that if Adam ate the forbidden fruit, he would die. Well, Adam, according to the Bible, Adam lived NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. And we complain about death sentences that stretch out for 20 years. But those of us who came after Adam, well, they croak almost always before they turn 100, and not a one of them was guilty of eating any forbidden fruit.

Somehow after the Forbidden Fruit Tree was no longer needed as a character in this childish fable, it vanished and was heard of never again.

sirs claims that God is nonsensical because he does not have to make sense. What a cop-out!

There is no value to suffering. Pain has a purpose at times, though surely not all the time.
It is useful that we feel pain when we touch a hot griddle, so we don't burn our stupid hands off. But the pains arthritis have no reason to exist other than poor design.

The Chinese Wall did not keep out the Mongols. The Manchu Dynasty was composed of the people the Chinese were trying to keep out.

Israel is puny. And the Israelis built the wall to keep out bombers in suicide vests. Trump's Wall will NEVER be built and who won't build it is even more certain.

Bullshit. Total bullshit. Trump is nothing but an egomaniacal bullshit artist.
First the idiotic rightwingers claim that they aren't racists and then do all that is in their power to prevent our first Black president to do his job.
Now they claim they aren't sexist and plan to fuck up the country in the same manner because they are sexists and cannot bear to see the country being led by a woman.

Asinine, stupid, inaccurate and revolting, sirs.

The brouhaha about Disney portraying a Hawaiian VIP as huge seems to seems to indicate that today's Hawaiians are torn between the ancient culture in which obesity was a positive thing and a sign of wealth, importance and aristocracy, and the mainland culture, which regards is as a mark of poverty and unstylishness.

Take the greatly respected singer called "Iz, who was probably the hugest celebrity of his time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

Pain teaches us to avoid dangerous results. But I am talking about DELIBERATE suffering, like monks and other religious nuts perform to demonstrate devotion. Like Mother Teresa thought was so great.

Such as enduring a headache rather than taking a pill to make it away.

The whole Jesus deliberately hanging on the cross to erase an incident of an ancestor heeding the advice of a talking snake, for example, is just silly.

That doesn't make sense.
No one is inspired by atheism to do good works. Atheists who do good works do them because they simply want to benefit their fellow men or the zoo, or whatever cause it is.

The Medical profession, by the way, has all but eliminated leprosy. Scientifically, not miraculously. They easily outdid Jesus in curing leprosy.

Atheism is not a cult and will never be a cult, or a religion. It is simply a statement of a lack of belief.
Just like there is no cult for people who dislike asparagus or like anchovies on their pizzas. There are no rituals, no initiations, no baptisms, no marriages, none of that stuff. There are no atheist priests to support. The closest you get to that are atheist writers like Christoper Hitchins who state their beliefs and then perhaps discuss or debate them in forums. There are a lot of such forums and discussions on youtube.