re: If evolution is a lie, why do we share every physical characteristic with other animals?

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Are you laughing at the notion that we were all born of sin because of Adam?

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No, I was laughing at the idea in general where religions make up a problem then suggest that they're the only group with a solution to said problem.

I do take issue with Christianity's original sin, though. It'd take a bit of thought to come up with a more immoral system - where someone is born into a "burn for all eternity" sentence through no control of their own (just being born). Sure, there's "salvation", but there really isn't. It's no coincidence that in the vast majority of the cases children grow up to adopt their parents religion. No Christian parents? Yea, you're pretty much fricked. Enjoy burning for all eternity!

The only people who think that this is a just system are the people who've been brain washed into this religion to begin with. Childhood indoctrination is very powerful. I never really thought about the horrors in the Old Testament until I was in my 20s. When they're told in a positive manner pretty much from birth its really hard to see anything wrong with drowning the entire world, killing children in the 10th plague, etc.