If there was a fall of man, which I seriously doubt, it was brought about by the propensities with which god (whom I seriously doubt, at least in a christian context) created him.
It's like a supreme being, who is referred to as god, brought inferior beings, referred to as humans, into existence with a predisposition to behave in ways he deplored. And when they behaved in ways consistent with how he created them, he banished them from the garden and, even worse, under the christian dispensation, sentenced them to an eternity of untold torment.
The christian response to such an assertion involves free will, i.e. god set you up to fail, but you can still choose to succeed against overwhelming odds, if only you summon the will, from somewhere within your god-induced depraved self, to do so.
That's exactly that train of thought that led me, after 45 years of professing to be a christian, to abandon christianity and, subsequently, to reject all the other major world religions I considered. My bottom line was that all of them contained enough inconsistencies and contradictions to merit my unconditional rejection.
My personal maxim is, if it makes sense, do it. If it doesn't make sense, do something else.
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
Clarence Darrow |