He made me to amuse Himself.

I sit here as if all the boredom in the universe has been cramped into one single constipated atom that shall explode into a Big Bang of mercurial activity. In perpetual silence it is a perquisite for something to happen, and in the ovulation of the universe God must've been bored to stupor for all the eternity that preceded it until He snapped his fingers Aha! with a yellow fluorescent bulb floating on his head. To Christian Fundies, God created the world out of unconditional love. But if you deconstruct His motives He did it to pacify His surmounting boredom.

For atheists such as myself who deny the Absolute Initial Action that dominoed into a series of cause and effects, the incomprehensible idea of an unborn, self-made, self-sustaining eternal timeless Being is just an absurd pretext to satisfy the question, "Who made God?" It is rather comprehensible to postulate that the universe is unborn, self-made, self-sustaining, eternal, and timeless, than have another separate extraneous superfluous Entity conceive this finite universe. But the point that there is something instead of nothing requires an explanation, an explanation that fills in the blank of our ignorance if once attributed to God instead of a Presently Unknown Mystery, gathers a resolution as much as there are questions about the unpredictable positions of electrons and the appearances of ghosts.

God was abysmally bored to an exponential degree that he conspired into creating a space filled with 70% dark matter and 30% hundred billion galaxies called the Universe. Outside that Universe, God stood in an imperceptible dimension with impalpable relativity to the world in front of him. Spiritualists fancy God holding the Universe in a grain of sand on one hand, and all the oceans in a drop of water on the other hand. Virtually speaking, a drop of water is larger than a grain of sand, but the universe in wild proportions is bigger than all the oceans of the universe combined. Oceans, bearing the primordial lifeform that evolved from single-celled organisms to multi-celled such as virus, bacteria, amoeba, then to fishes, crustaceans, reptiles, then walked on land and flew on air as amphibians, mammals, and birds. (And that wasn't actually a sentence, I am aware.) Living and non-living in a tipping scale of grains of sand and droplets of water. (That wasn't a sentence either.) Science, thanks to Charles Darwin, has a different theory about the beginning of life as with religion, thanks to the superstitious poetic two-millennia old ignorant writers of the Bible.

Granted God created the universe out of love. He molded Adam and Eve from the clay on the ground like ginger breads and baked them and breathed life into them. He loved Adam and Eve so much that He let them wander towards a perspicacious serpent coiled on a branch of the Tree of Knowledge strategically positioned at the center of the Garden. He loved them so much that He didn't grant them the knowledge to distinguish the right from wrong. Instead, they received it from a serpent, God's nemesis, and bereft of this Moral Knowledge, the innocent Adam and Eve ate the Fruit without knowing they've just committed the First and Gravest Crime Ever Perpetrated on the Face of the Planet. (Sidenote: Adam didn't digest the apple; it stuck to his throat, hence the term Adam's Apple. If Adam wasn't able to digest that bite from that curious fruit then by all means the nutrients and enlightening properties of the fruit didn't suffuse up his brain and therefore made him knowledgable. In essence, Adam was still a consummate ignoramus.) God loved them so much He spared them from lethal injection, guillotine, death by hanging, crucifixion, flagellation, and other macabre forms of torture, but neither did He teach them the chasm between obedience and disobedience, one leading to ignorance, the other leading to expulsion. One way or the other, the bifurcation of Adam and Eve's destiny lay not in their hands but on God's.

Granted God loved Adam and Eve. He expelled them from the Paradise because of an apparent peccadillo a parent would rather pardon an innocent child. Other than kicking them out of their habitat, God anathematized them and all their descendants to eternal damnation. God so loved the world that when He could've just forgiven everybody outright, He wound up sending Himself in the camouflage of a "Son" to save everybody from Original Sin and therefore appease Himself. Without analyzing this scene, it appears that humanity erred against God instead of God against humanity. But like I said, He was bored and condescending so he had to make a scene and emerge a hero.

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