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Lies From Heaven

In the beginning, the LORD God made the heavens and the earth. With the appearance of age He made them, and when He made them, the LORD God saw that it was cleverly deceptive, and the LORD God smiled upon his work.

Next, the LORD God surrounded the earth with a multitude of stars, so that man might be tricked into believing that he is not special in the eyes of the LORD.

The LORD then created the animals. Male and female he created them, and with great number and variety, that man might believe foolish thoughts, even that the higher animals were evolved from the lower ones. And the LORD saw that this also was deceptive, and pronounced it good.

Finally, the LORD God created man out of the dust of the earth. With vestigial organs he created him, that man might believe foul and devilish voices, even the voice of Charles Darwin would he believe.

And so, removing all evidence of His creative acts, God stepped back and waited.

And the LORD God said, "Verily, unto those that heed the words written in my book be eternal damnation, for they heed not what nature shows plainly. But to those who are observant and thoughtful, and who believe not in me, they shall have rewards everlasting."

And in this way, the LORD God ensured the salvation of the wise and the destruction of the blind.

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