Blasphemies and other Forms of Artistic Expression

On YouTube, I found an audio reading of Christopher Hitchen's 'God Is Not Great' . It was a reading of chapter two - 'Religion Kills.'  I listened to the reading, and kept an open mind to his point of view, as I tend to disagree with atheists for the same reasons I disagree with xians on the role of religion. Listening to the two of them debate is like listening to a political debate between Democrats and Republicans - pointless and needlessly cutthroat. So, in listening to Hitchens rant on about religion being evil, I could imagine the xian responses to his arguments, and how unconvincing they would be to his.  Hitchens uses religion as the backdrop to all the evils of the world, which isn't correct.  Given the theme of his chapter, I would argue that God, to quote Concrete Blonde, is more like a bullet.  And everyone knows that bullets don't kill people, people kill people!  Just as basing murder on the teachings of the three plus monotheistic religion...

I'm not a religious person, but I have an idea for the Xian concept of the Garden of Eden.  Genesis (Book 3) states that Adam and Eve were cast from the garden of Eden after eating of the Tree of Knowledge.  As most Christians, I was brought up to believe that this is the Original Sin, the core act of disobedience against the word of God that condemns man to death (and Hell, if you were fundamentalist Baptist.) Now, suppose that the Tree of Knowledge has nothing to do with knowing what is good and what is evil.  Rather, it is to know the true nature of God. Then the parable would make more sense: To admit that God exists is to say that God is not real. To say that God does not exist is to admit that God is real. Simply, to say that there is knowledge of God is to confess no knowledge of God.  To confess that there is no God is to acknowledge God.  God cannot exist if we believe He is real, though if we believe He is real, He cannot exist. It's too e...