America 1982-Chapter 458 - 78: In the Name of God_3

The little girl said to Tommy, "Because the school had previously organized a parent-child camping trip for us at Treasure Beach, we stayed at Treasure Beach for one day and one night, and neither by day nor by night did we see the Kraken surface."

"What’s your name?"

"Emily."

"Very good, Emily. Think about it, didn’t I just now resemble that bad snake?" Tommy looked at the little girl with a gentle gaze. "If you had not personally visited Treasure Beach, you might have taken my word for it, right? After all, why would an adult want to deceive a sweet little girl like you? Now think about this, why didn’t God just let Adam and Eve eat the apple directly?"

The girl named Emily nodded with an almost understanding look. With Tommy’s encouraging and rewarding gaze, she hesitantly spoke, "So, God wants us to go and see for ourselves so we know whether the bad snake is lying?"

"VeryGood! You’ve answered very correctly!" Tommy exclaimed with an exaggerated expression.

The little girl laughed with joy.

The Bible is merely a poor religious text filled with countless logical flaws, where later generations crazily cover for the blunders of their predecessors. The Bible’s original text records the real reason why God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

That is to say, God was worried that after having consumed the fruit of wisdom, and thus having gained wisdom, if they were to also eat the fruit of life under Satan’s Temptation and gain eternal life, they would become no different from their creator himself. He created humans to have them worship him, not to make them into himself.

God using the matter to teach Adam and Eve to think independently was purely a fabrication of Tommy’s on the spot, having nothing whatsoever to do with God’s true intentions. It was only a way of wiping God’s, or rather, Jeff’s, backside.

Just like modern-day clergymen, who conjure up reasons that sound warmer and more merciful to beautify the darker parts of God’s history, not for God’s sake, because if it were truly for His sake, they would frankly tell the faithful that God loves his followers to remain forever as bare-assed fools. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Seeing that the children believed they had found the answer, Tommy immediately struck while the iron was hot, "So, I want you all to understand that dear Uncle Jeff is definitely not a fool. He wants you to learn to think for yourselves, got it?"

"Sheriff Bluestar doesn’t ask his uncle every time he has to catch a criminal and figure out how to bring them to justice. He needs to have the wisdom and courage to face difficulties on his own. I think you are being very, very impolite. Uncle Jeff and his friends prepare cookies and candies for you every day, tell you fascinating stories, and you don’t thank him, but instead, you question him, ridicule him. Think about it, hey, you, little guy, if you brought tasty candies for your good friends every day, and while they were eating the candy you gave, they laughed at you, saying you look like a rabbit whose buttocks hair has been shaved off, what would you do?"

"I... I might pretend nothing happened, then the next day I’d wrap some poop sprinkled with sugar in candy wrappers, and pass it off as gummy sweets for them to continue enjoying," the little boy Tommy had pointed out seriously pondered a method of teaching those daring to laugh at him a lesson.

That method of revenge, damn it’s so Florida, Tommy silently thought.

However, he still wore a smile, "If you don’t want dear Uncle Jeff to prepare a special gummy treat made of poop for each of you tomorrow, what should you do?"

"Sorry, Mr. Raven."

"Sorry, Uncle Jeff."

The children all began to apologize to Jeff.

Jeff, a bit flustered, responded, "It’s okay, kids, I promise I won’t make poop candies. I’ll continue to bring you sweets tomorrow."

"Uncle Jeff has forgiven you, but he hopes you’ll do him a small favor, and that is to take a carefully prepared little gift for your parents from him." Tommy, seeing the children apologizing, stood up and walked back to the original corner: "Someone will give you the gift when you go home."

"I... when did I..." Jeff was somewhat taken aback upon hearing Tommy say he had prepared gifts for the parents of these children.

Tommy, standing in the corner, turned to look at Jeff, who was surrounded by children, "It was Martin, your campaign manager Martin who dug into his own pockets to thoughtfully prepare gifts for their parents. Continue with the next story, Jeff."