Originally Posted by Zee

Personally, I think that God was the catch all term to explain things that didn't make sense to people who didn't have the knowledge that we have nowadays of science, geography and how the world works. It's silly how the two ideas can't co-exist because of hard line views on both sides. People who are vehemently against religion are just as bad as those who are vehemently for it. Aggressive views don't achieve anything other than intolerance for those views. As for the story of Adam and Eve, I see it as a morality tale more than anything - don't give in to temptation, especially when you've been forewarned about the consequences. Pretty sound advice if you ask me. Ignore the craziness of the Bible and take the values that can be applied to the modern day world and you've actually got a pretty good list of morals - it's just there's a lot of leeway for crazy people to interpret whatever the hell the like out of the Bible and other religious texts, and that's why I think that religious books were put together by people who wanted to control the masses and profit out of people's fears/lack of knowledge.

I'm not someone who's put a lot of research into religion because I've not been brought up around it in any way, which I'm extremely grateful for, but I have my opinions and they make sense to me.