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Stan Lee’s Universe

By Neil Curry, CNN

updated 6:59 AM EDT, Wed June 12, 2013

Source: CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Stan Lee is CEO of POW! Entertainment.
• Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four are some of the characters he has helped create
• The female fan audience has grown over the past years, creating a market for more super-heroines.
• Lee is exploring new markets. Besides from creating a Chinese hero, he is also working on the launch of a digital comic book hero for India.

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Last week a smartly dressed elderly gentleman sat patiently in a crowd on a sunny afternoon in New York City awaiting his part in a super-hero movie. Unusually, for an extra, the man was attracting as much attention as the film’s A-list cast.

While Spider-man sweltered beneath his lycra suit, 90-year-old Stan Lee coolly answered questions from fans of his own, eager to know how he helped create the webbed super-hero, along with Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four and scores of other heroes of the Marvel Comic books.

Lee’s Indian superhero is called Chakra the Invincible.

In an interview with CNN, the Godfather of comic book heroes downplayed his role in history, claiming he just did as he was told:

“The publisher had me doing western magazines, crime magazines, men’s adventure magazines, even romance and teenage magazines and one day he came to me and he said you know one of our competitors has a book called The Justice League and it’s selling well and it’s a bunch of superheroes, why don’t we do some superhero magazines? I said OK, I wanted to keep my job so I came up with The Fantastic Four and the others and that was the only reason. If my publisher hadn’t said ‘let’s do superhero stories’ I’d probably still be doing A Kid Called Outlaw, The Two Gun Kid or Millie the Model or whatever I was doing at the time.”

Lee admits that the superhero universe he co-created more than fifty years ago was almost entirely devoid of super-heroines.

“The reason there haven’t been as many super-heroines as superheroes is when we first started doing these kind of stories, when Marvel was first doing The Fantastic Four and Spiderman and The X-Men there were many more men, there were many more males than females buying comic books so we always really directed our stories towards the male reader and we had male readers and male super-heroes.”

If my publisher hadn’t said ‘let’s do superhero stories’ I’d probably still be doing A Kid Called Outlaw.
Comic book legend Stan Lee

Nowadays he says, the female audience for comic book heroes is huge and hopes to see the shift reflected in the stories and their characters.

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“Little by little this field became so popular that the boys’ sisters started reading the stories and getting interested in them. Now when we have a movie like Thor or the Avengers or Iron Man, you’ll get as many females going to the theatre as males therefore I predict you will see pretty much as many super-heroines as superheroes as time goes by.”

After half a century of seeing U.S. comic book giants Marvel and DC Comics exporting American heroes to the world, Lee feels it’s time for a change.

“We figured it’s about time that we had heroes who weren’t just all American and what we would be more and what would be more interesting than having a superhero who is Chinese?

I predict you will see pretty much as many super-heroines as superheroes as time goes by
Comic book legend Stan Lee

So Stan Lee created The Annihilator — an animated character which he hopes will become the star of a super-hero movie co-produced with China.

“He has many of the Chinese characteristics and virtues that one would expect in a Chinese movie but we have successfully transferred them to a movie of worldwide appeal but we haven’t lost the feeling of what it’s like to be a Chinese young man who is suddenly thrust in to an adventure which involves a super power and a super foe but he’s guided by the background, his own background and his Chinese heritage, the things he’s learned, the things he’s experienced.”

But how will China react to such an imported hero?

“I see no reason why a Chinese audience wouldn’t love a Chinese superhero created by an American or created by anyone else as long as the character is exciting and authentic and interesting.”

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Lee is also working on the launch of a digital comic book hero for India — Chakra the Invincible.

“I think that audiences throughout the world love superheroes. I mean you could go back to the time of The Odyssey, whether it’s William Tell or El Cid. Every type, every nationality, every culture has had superheroes in their legends. People love that sort of thing. The Greek gods and so forth.”

Superhero stories are like fairy tales for grown ups
Comic book legend Stan Lee

He hopes the rise of the super-hero blockbuster movie will inspire young fans to follow in his footsteps.

“Every generation has its brilliant young people who want to do these films and I think that more and more talented people get involved and as long as that happens we will always have new and exciting themes for these films.”

Lee believes that this will ensure continuing interest in comic book characters which have stood the test of time.

“The thing about superhero stories, they are like fairy tales for grown ups. Every child loved reading fairy tales when he or she was a child. They were stories about monsters and witches and giants and magicians, well superhero stories have that same flavor but they are done for adults as well as for children.”

 

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For years religion has bilked the populace out of billions to fund myth-based folley benefiting no one. Some of the funds DO provide food and other services and are well needed in the community, but most are not. It is time that organizations that live off of the taxpayer paid their fair share. The economy is bad and the churches are still doing well. You don’t hear charlatans like Joel Osteen or Creflo Dollar complaining, but that is because our system has given them a free ride! End the ride and end corporate welfare as well! 

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This Oklahoma atheist isn’t thanking the Lord

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN

(CNN) – Behind her were ruins, a tangled mess where structures once stood. Cradled in her arms, the mother’s 19-month-old son played with a snatched microphone, unfazed by the chaos swirling around him. And in front of Rebecca Vitsmun stood CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who – after asking her about the decision that saved her and her son’s lives – had one more question:

“I guess you got to thank the Lord, right?” he asked.

“Yeah,” she mumbled, smiling and looking down.

“Do you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?” he continued.

“I, I, I,” the 30-year-old stay-at-home mom stammered before adding, “I’m actually an atheist.”

She laughed, Blitzer laughed, and the moment passed seamlessly on live TV. Except it also became a clip heard across the Internet and social media – one that pointed to a reality about faith in America that exists even where, and when, people might least expect it.

Vitsmun, who chronicled her decision to flee her house with her son on CNN iReport, is one of 13 million atheists or agnostics in America, according to a 2012 report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.

See Rebecca Vitsmun discuss her decision with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

While only 2.4% of Americans are atheists, they fit into a broader category that is on the rise in the United States.

Nearly 20% of adults – and a third of those under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated, the Pew report found.

This group, which has grown by roughly 5% in five years, is often referred to as the “nones.” It is a term that extends beyond atheists, who believe there is no God, and agnostics, who believe it’s impossible to prove or disprove God’s existence. It includes a greater proportion of people who see themselves as nothing in particular, which means they might be secular, spiritual or believers – but simply don’t identify with an organized religion, said Greg Smith, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center. 

“When we ask people questions about their religious identity, when we ask them about their religious beliefs, there are relatively few who are atheists. But I’m speaking in percentage terms,” Smith said. “That doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of them around. And they’re certainly all over.”

Oklahoma included.

In fact, when the Pew Research Center last drilled down to uncover the religious landscape of affiliations on a state level five years ago, 12% of Oklahomans were religiously unaffiliated. And just as the numbers ticked up nationally since then, it stands to reason that they did the same in Oklahoma.

We tried to reach Vitsmun by phone Wednesday but were unable to connect.

Her friend Waylon Flinn, however, shed some light on who she is. She and her husband, who Flinn said is also an atheist, aren’t the sorts who advertise their beliefs or throw them in people’s faces. When she agreed to go on camera, it wasn’t for that platform; she didn’t even see the Lord question coming.

But that she responded to Blitzer the way she did is no surprise to Flinn, who opened his home in nearby Norman to Vitsmun’s family after theirs was destroyed.

“She handled it in her style, which is very honest and true to herself,” he said.

 

Jessica Ravitz – CNN Writer/Producer Filed under: Atheism • Faith Now • iReport • News media

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1. What is the last of the Ten Commandments?

1. Don’t steal.
2. Don’t covet your neighbor’s wife and property.
3. Don’t boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
4. Love your neighbor as yourself.

2. What is the penalty for working on the Sabbath?

1. You will be stoned to death.
2. Neither you nor your offspring to the 5th generation can enter the tabernacle.
3. You should sacrifice two unblemished she goats.
4. You will be disinherited from the kingdom.

3. What is God’s name?

1. Jealous.
2. Righteous.
3. Holy.
4. Jehovah.

4. How should parents treat a stubborn and rebellious son?

1. He should be beaten seven times with a whip made of horsehair.
2. He should be stripped and humiliated at the gate of the city.
3. He should be expelled from the family.
4. He should be stoned to death.

5. What happens if you are not a virgin on your wedding night?

1. Your father must pay 100 shekels of silver to your husband.
2. You can never approach the altar.
3. You must dress in black and leave your husband for one year.
4. You will be stoned to death.

6. What does the bible say about witches?

1. Witches should be killed.
2. Witches are people possessed by demons and they are forever damned.
3. Witches can be saved if they are exorcised.
4. Witches are part of the mythology of idolatrous tribes.

7. Which of these foods does the bible expressly permit you to eat? (The others are “abominations.”)

1. Pork.
2. Shellfish.
3. Locust.
4. Rabbit.

8. When the Israelites conquered the Midianites, what part of the spoils of war was given to the priest as “the Lord’s tribute”?

1. 500 sheep.
2. 30,000 asses.
3. 32,000 cows.
4. 32 virgins.

9. What is the origin of the “mighty men” giants known as nephilim?

1. They were the offspring of God’s angels and young women.
2. They were the result of an earlier, botched creation.
3. They were monsters from the evil nation of Nephi.
4. They were part of the “blessing of Abraham” that ensured military victory to God’s chosen people.

10. What happened to Korah and his family, Israelites who thought they could deal directly with God without a human intermediary?

1. They became priests.
2. They were expelled from the nation of Israel.
3. The earth opened and swallowed them up.
4. They were stripped of all their belongings, houses, and livestock.

11. According to the bible, who created evil?

1. Adam.
2. Eve.
3. God.
4. Satan.

12. According to the bible, what is God not able to do?

1. Save the very worst sinners from hell.
2. Make a rock so huge he can’t lift it.
3. Repel chariots of iron.
4. Make people tell lies.

13. According to the bible, where does God live?

1. On a throne in the seventh heaven.
2. In darkness.
3. Above the clouds.
4. On a planet between the sun and the stars.

14. According to biblical biology, what is a bat?

1. A bird.
2. A mammal.
3. An insect.
4. A mythical creature.

15. According to biblical anatomy, where does thinking happen?

1. In the heart.
2. In the brain.
3. In the kidneys.
4. In the lungs.

16. How did Gideon demonstrate his family values?

1. He lived with a young boy named Jether.
2. He and his wife Ophrah had three sons who became spiritual leaders.
3. He fathered 71 sons through his “many wives” and a mistress in Shechem.
4. He remained single, becoming the inspiration for St. Paul.

17. After Jephthah was victorious in battle, what sacrifice did he burn on the altar, as he had vowed to the Lord?

1. Himself.
2. His livestock.
3. Two unspotted lambs.
4. His virgin daughter.

18. What price did David pay King Saul for his first wife?

1. 500 cattle.
2. The heads of 100 Philistines.
3. The foreskins of 200 Philistines.
4. The swords, shields and horses of 300 Philistines.

19. How many sexual partners did King Solomon have?

1. One wife and 300 concubines.
2. One wife. (The concubines were servants.)
3. 300 wives.
4. One thousand sexual partners.

20. What happened to 42 little children who teased God’s prophet Elisha for being bald and he cursed them in the name of the Lord?

1. They were whipped by their parents.
2. They and their descendants to five generations were forbidden to enter the tabernacle.
3. Two bears came out of the forest and killed them all.
4. They were forced to work seven years for the Levites as child slaves.

21. What reason did God give for tormenting Job?

1. “Job was a sinner. He deserved it.”
2. “I didn’t torment Job. Satan did it.”
3. “Satan dared me, so I destroyed Job for no reason at all.”
4. “I wanted to see how far a man would bend before breaking.”

22. According to the bible, what does Satan look like?

1. A skinny red man with horns and a pointed tail.
2. A red dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns.
3. A garden snake.
4. An angel in a black robe.

23. How does the biblical god treat haughty women?

1. He makes them barren.
2. He puts scabs on their heads and uncovers their private parts.
3. He takes away their gold and expensive clothing.
4. The Holy Spirit causes them to feel shame for their arrogance.

24. In dollars (shekels), how much is a woman worth?

1. Half a male.
2. The same as a male.
3. Twice as much as a male.
4. Irrelevant. The bible does not put a financial value on human life.

25. What happens if a man rapes an engaged virgin in the city, and no one hears anything?

1. The man should pay her father 100 shekels of silver.
2. The man is stoned to death.
3. The woman is stoned to death.
4. They are both stoned to death.

26. What is the Mosaic Law punishment for being handicapped?

1. You will be stoned to death.
2. You must sacrifice two additional doves on the altar.
3. You are not allowed in church.
4. You must bathe for two months before entering the tabernacle.

27. According to the bible, when may a husband have sex with his wife?

1. As often as he likes. She is his property.
2. Not during her menstrual period.
3. As often as he likes until the first son is born, then by mutual agreement.
4. As often as the wife allows it.

28. How should you feel when you dash babies against the rocks?

1. Happy.
2. Ashamed.
3. It depends if the babies were guilty or innocent.
4. Nothing. It is all in God’s hands.

29. How many human generations were there before Jesus?

1. “More numerous than the stars.”
2. 144,000.
3. 412.
4. 62.

30. What Christmas tradition is expressly forbidden in the bible?

1. Singing carols house-to-house.
2. Exchanging gifts.
3. Christmas trees.
4. Kissing under the mistletoe.

31. According to Jesus, what must you do to have eternal life?

1. Obey the law and keep all the sacraments.
2. Sell everything you have and give all the money to the poor.
3. Attend church regularly and tithe ten percent of your income to God.
4. Confess your sins and ask Jesus to come into your heart.

32. According to Jesus, how should Christian disciples treat their parents?

1. Parents should be loved, honored and cared for.
2. Parents should be taken care of by the church community.
3. Parents should be hated.
4. Parents should be ignored–“Let the dead bury the dead”–because when you are born again, God becomes your true parent.

33. According to Jesus, how should slaves be treated?

1. They should be beaten daily to keep them in line.
2. They should be beaten for disobedience, but not more severely than they deserve.
3. They should be treated humanely, as members of the family.
4. They should be set free because slavery is wrong.

34. What did Jesus say about peace?

1. “Peace on earth, good will toward men.”
2. “Don’t think that I came for peace on earth. I came to start wars.”
3. “Each person makes their own peace, according to their faith and how they treat others.”
4. “There is no peace apart from God.”

35. Which one of these phrases did Jesus not say about witnessing?

1. “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
2. “God is my witness.”
3. “If I bear witness of myself, it is true.”
4. “If I bear witness of myself, it is not true.”

36. What personal sacrifice for “the kingdom of heaven” was Jesus talking about when he told his disciples, “He that is able to receive it, let him receive it”?

1. Leave your family.
2. Pluck out your eyes.
3. Become poor.
4. Castrate yourself.

37. According to New Testament medical advice, what should you do if you are sick?

1. Seek medical help from doctors ordained by God.
2. Ask the church elders to apply oil to your skin and pray for you.
3. Ask Jesus or the elders to exorcise the evil spirits from your body.
4. Kneel down before a brass serpent wrapped around a pole.

38. What does Paul prohibit a woman from wearing in church?

1. A hat, or any head covering.
2. Gold.
3. Necklaces, bracelets or anklets.
4. Men’s clothing.

39. According to Paul, what is the role of women in the church?

1. Women are equal to men in all respects.
2. Women do the praying, singing and testifying, while men handle the preaching and finances.
3. Women must keep silent. They should learn from their husbands at home.
4. Women are not allowed in church except on high holidays.

40. What does Paul say about marriage?

1. “I wish everyone were single like me.”
2. “Celibacy is a pagan practice.”
3. “Elders and deacons may have more than one wife.”
4. “If your feelings are only sexual, then don’t get married.”

41. Paul forbids divorce, but Jesus allows it under one circumstance. What is that circumstance?

1. If the husband has sex outside of marriage.
2. If the wife has sex outside of marriage.
3. If either has sex outside of marriage.
4. If the wife fails to produce a son.

42. What group of people will make it into the heavenly choir?

1. Those who are “poor in spirit.”
2. Those who confess their sins and accept Jesus as their savior.
3. God’s chosen people, the Jews.
4. 144,000 male virgins who have not been defiled with women.

43. Which one of these words is in the bible?

1. Trinity.
2. Liberal.
3. Christmas.
4. Rapture.

44. Where does the bible say that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights?

1. The laws of Moses.
2. Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount.
3. The Book of Revelation.
4. Nowhere.

45. Should Christians allow nonbelievers into their homes?

Yes. No.

46. Should Christian men kiss each other?

Yes. No.

47. Should Christians always give what they have to anyone who asks for it?

Yes. No.

48. Do the Ten Commandments prohibit incest or rape?

Yes. No.

49. If you lose a lawsuit, should you pay exactly what the court decides?

Yes. No.

50. Can Christians ask their boss for a raise?

Yes. No.

(Unanswered questions will be counted wrong.)

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Space..The final frontier!

Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek’s FTL Drive May Actually Work

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In the “Star Trek” TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise’s warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, “highly illogical.”

However, there’s a loophole in Einstein’s general theory of relativity that could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take light. The trick? It’s not the starship that’s moving — it’s the space around it.

In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives andfaster-than-light travel. Maybe the warp drive in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the franchise’s latest film opening this week, is possible after all. [Warp Drive: Can It Be Done? (Video)]

According to Einstein’s theory, an object with mass cannot go as fast or faster than the speed of light. The original “Star Trek” series ignored this “universal speed limit” in favor of a ship that could zip around the galaxy in a matter of days instead of decades. They tried to explain the ship’s faster-than-light capabilities by powering the warp engine with a “matter-antimatter” engine. Antimatter was a popular field of study in the 1960s, when creator Gene Roddenberry was first writing the series. When matter and antimatter collide, their mass is converted to kinetic energy in keeping with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc².

In other words, matter-antimatter collision is a potentially powerful source of energy and fuel, but even that wouldn’t be enough to propel a starship to faster-than-light speeds.

Nevertheless, it’s thanks to “Star Trek” that the word “warp” is now practically synonymous with faster-than-light travel.

 

Is warp drive possible?

Decades after the original “Star Trek” show had gone off the air, pioneering physicist and avowed Trek fan Miguel Alcubierre argued that maybe a warp drive is possible after all. It just wouldn’t work quite the way “Star Trek” thought it did.

Things with mass can’t move faster than the speed of light. But what if, instead of the ship moving through space, the space was moving around the ship?

Space doesn’t have mass. And we know that it’s flexible: space has been expanding at a measurable rate ever since the Big Bang. We know this from observing the light of distant stars — over time, the wavelength of the stars’ light as it reaches Earth is lengthened in a process called “redshifting.” According to the Doppler effect, this means that the source of the wavelength is moving further away from the observer — i.e. Earth.

So we know from observing redshifted light that the fabric of space is movable. [What to Wear on a 100-Year Starship Voyage]

 

Alcubierre used this knowledge to exploit a loophole in the “universal speed limit.” In his theory, the ship never goes faster than the speed of light — instead, space in front of the ship is contracted while space behind it is expanded, allowing the ship to travel distances in less time than light would take. The ship itself remains in what Alcubierre termed a “warp bubble” and, within that bubble, never goes faster than the speed of light.

Since Alcubierre published his paper “The Warp Drive: Hyper-fast travel within general relativity” in 1994, many physicists and science fiction writers have played with his theory —including “Star Trek” itself.

Alcubierre’s warp drive theory was retroactively incorporated into the “Star Trek” mythos by the 1990s TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

In a way, then, “Star Trek” created its own little grandfather paradox: Though ultimately its theory of faster-than-light travel was heavily flawed, the series established a vocabulary of light-speed travel that Alcubierre eventually formalized in his own warp drive theories.

The Alcubierre warp drive is still theoretical for now. “The truth is that the best ideas sound crazy at first. And then there comes a time when we can’t imagine a world without them.” That’s a statement from the 100 Year Starship organization, a think tank devoted to making Earth what “Star Trek” would call a “warp-capable civilization” within a century.

The first step toward a functional warp drive is to prove that a “warp bubble” is even possible, and that it can be artificially created.

That’s exactly what physicist Harold “Sonny” White and a team of researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas are doing right now.

NASA’s warp drive project

According to Alcubierre’s theory, one could create a warp bubble by applying negative energy, or energy created in a vacuum. This process relies on the Casimir effect, which states that a vacuum is not actually a void; instead, a vacuum is actually full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves. Distorting these waves creates negative energy, which possibly distorts space-time, creating a warp bubble.

To see if space-time distortion has occurred in a lab experiment, the researchers shine two highly targeted lasers: one through the site of the vacuum and one through regular space. The researchers will then compare the two beams, and if the wavelength of the one going through the vacuum is lengthened, i.e. redshifted, in any way, they’ll know that it passed through a warp bubble. [See also: How Video Games Help Fuel Space Exploration]

White and his team have been at work for a few months now, but they have yet to get a satisfactory reading. The problem is that the field of negative energy is so small, the laser so precise, that even the smallest seismic motion of the earth can throw off the results.

When we talked to White, he was in the process of moving the test equipment to a building on the Johnson Space Center campus that was originally built for the Apollo space program. “The lab is seismically isolated, so the whole floor can be floated,” White told TechNewsDaily. “But the system hadn’t been [activated] for a while so part of the process was, we had the system inspected and tested.”

White is now working on recalibrating the laser for the new location. He wouldn’t speculate on when his team could expect conclusive data, nor how long until fully actuated warp travel might be possible, but he remains convinced that it’s only a matter of time.

“The bottom line is, nature can do it,” said White. “So the salient question is, ‘can we?'”

This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to SPACE.com. Original article onTechNewsDaily.

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1. Decide to arrange for something other than yourself to exist

2. Create a being by the name of Lucifer with full knowledge that this being will betray you and ultimately cause an infinite amount of suffering unnecessarily.

3. Allow an unfathomably horrific dimension of existence known as ‘hell’ to emerge created by yourself or perhaps Lucifer and allow that dimension to continue existing. Do not override or prevent such a thing. It will come into play later

4. Create objective unchanging moral prescriptions and base them upon whatever your nature happens to be and then label any action or thought contrary to these standards ‘sin’.

5. Be sure to include in these moral prescriptions edits for social and psychological health such as encouragement to beat ones children with a rod, permission to buy and sell slaves and will them as property to ones children for life, requirement that women not be allowed to teach or have authority over men and of course the instruction to kill anyone who expresses interest in worshiping other gods.

6. Design a physical universe, planets, animals and vegetation all with the appearance of age be sure to include in your creation biological flaws redundancies and over-complications that appear as if they were the product of blind cumulative processes, perhaps a urinary tract that runs straight through the prostate gland or a unnecessary appendix prone to inflation and rupturing, or maybe a respiratory and digestive system forced to share the same plumbing, (these are just a few working ideas).

7. Create a garden with a tree in it bearing fruit that when eaten provides knowledge of your objective moral standards, and create two sentient cognitive beings without knowledge or awareness of these standards and instruct them not to eat from the tree which would enlighten them (in other words, arrange it so that only AFTER they eat from the tree are they capable of understanding that doing so was a violation of objective moral standards).

8. Warn these cognitive beings that they will undoubtedly die if they eat from this tree, but don’t follow through if they do, then endow a reptile with vocal cords, lips or some other means of speaking audibly to your cognitive beings enabling it to make a convincing case to one of them for eating from the tree. Do not prevent this or intervene.

9. Now by this point make sure your cognitive beings have been equipped for reproducing themselves and multiplying, and because one of them has sinned, arrange that every single one of their descendants until the end of time will be born with an inherited sinful nature, defaulting in a future of everlasting torment. Do not by any means allow each of them to be born with a clean slate and the capacity for living a sin-free life if they desire as you did with your first two prototypes.

10. Endow these cognitive beings with a ‘soul’ which keeps their thoughts and feelings and other cognitive faculties in existence forever one way or another. And then allow the sinfulness of these beings to be incompatible with your presence and let hell be the only other place that they can go once they exit the the physical world, do not make any attempt to spare these souls the eternal torment of hell such as allowing souls to stop existing all together or creating additional realm for them to reside besides with you or in hell.

11. Over time allow these beings to populate the earth you’ve creating, knowing with infallible certainty of course that after so many generations they will disappointed you enough that you find it necessary to kill all of them in a global flood and start all over from scratch.

12. Now when this happens (again right on schedule) make an exception for one small family of cognitive beings who you deem righteous of course it goes without saying that powers of omnipotence allow you to know, again, with infallible certainty that this family to will ultimately disappointing in the same way that those who you drowned, rendering the entire endeavor futile, but for now it’s best that you pretend not to know that.

13. Instruct this small disappointment of a family to populate the entire world all over again by way of incest.

14. Declare that until further notice the only way for these cognitive beings to rectify their sinful nature while on earth is to preform ritual animal sacrifice’s and other acts of senseless violence, additionally when certain sins are committed by any one of your cognitive beings demand that the surrounding community kill that being themselves.

15. In the meantime perform many epic miracles for all to see and intervene often with your physical creations, stop the sun in the sky, part the red sea, turn rivers into blood, and women into pillars of salt, give men superhuman strength, speak to the thousands with a booming voice from heaven etc, but before these cognitive beings become advanced enough in the area’s of science and communication that they could actually document, share, playback and verify these epic miracles, make sure you stop performing them all together .

16. Decide at some point that the most pressing of your objective moral prescriptions are not as obvious to these cognitive beings as you once thought, take this opportunity to chisel your top ten moral concerns into two tablets of stone and commission one of your cognitive beings to deliver these tablets to the masses, (Note to self: Roughly half of these moral concerns should center around pleasing you, praising you and remaining loyal to you)

17. After several thousand years impregnate one of these cognitive beings so that she gives birth to your son in physical form, who also happens to be you, at the same time.

18. Allow this cognitive being who is your son but also you to grow up and make several revisions to you/your son’s original standards of morality then arrange for other cognitive beings to torture and kill you/your son, authorize this sacrifice of yourself as a means of granting all other cognitive beings immunity from the consequences of their sinful nature, which you allowed them to be born with in the first place.

19. Do not however make this sacrifice free, establish that none of these cognitive beings shall be eligible for benefits of this sacrifice unless they actively believed that it happened, in other words, despite the quality of their intentions any cognitive beings henceforth who finds themselves unconvinced these events actually took place, is unwittingly designating themselves for the endless suffering of hell.

20. With that established, be sure to refrain from making it clear and knowable to the rest of the world that these events actually took place, ensure that no cognitive being after the first century has the luxury of witnessing your son who is also you say or do anything to indicate he was a living guy. Again, make sure that all of this occurs before advancements in science and technology are available to verify for those who aren’t present.

21. Arrange so that the only surviving record of these events will be offered anonymously by non-eye witness’s translated to a language different from the one you/ your son will speak written no earlier than thirty years after you/your son preformed these miracles and makes these clams, however do make sure that these records feature the precept that believing in something without evidence is morally superior to investigation and verification.

22. Be sure that after only a few decades the only accounts of these events in existence are copies of copies of copies which will be verifiably altered and added to in historically and theologically significant ways from generation to generation, sect to sect. Do not preserve the original copies of these accounts, do not protect them from revision, do not set in place any mechanism of protecting them from being interpreted in hundreds upon hundreds of ways most of which being heretical and therefore punishable.

23. Do not bother to employ your omniscience in such a way as to discern which of these cognitive beings are truly rebelling, and which simply don’t know how to distinguish you from other versions of god which do not in fact exist.

24. Do not make it clear to these beings that you are are even here. Allow for your very existence to remain an easily debatable, easily questionable, easily doubtable proposition, allow billions and billions of souls to be unthinkably tortured for all of eternity regardless of their character, integrity, bravery, responsibility or conduct because they had not correctly assumed that the right set of propositions were true by the time their lives on earth were over.

25. And finally… when all is said and done demand that you be praised for this plan.

Checkmate… there’s Christianity for you. 

Above content borrowed from an atheist argument site. Very pertinent and specific. This piece yet again asks why an all knowing omnipotent being would go thru all this fucking drama that reads like a bronze-age episode of the Kartrashians!