Let me see if I've got this right....

[brandx1138]

Is this how it all went down:

A. God, in his perfect wisdom, made a perfect plan for a perfect universe.
Part of that plan was to create humans in his likeness and a paradise for these humans to live in and worship Him. Unfortunately (for everyone involved), a talking serpent that He created ruins that plan and so He decides to cast out the humans and create a new plan...

B. Plan B, where humans suffer and toil and die, but are still commanded to worship Him.

C. Then that plan goes wrong, so He floods the Earth except for one family and a bunch of animals (Plan C).

D. Then that plan goes wrong, so He divides them all up by different languages (Plan D).

E. Then that plan goes wrong, so He picks one tribe and tells them to go around and murder anyone who gets in their way en route to their divinely designated plot of land (Plan E).

F. Then that plan goes wrong, so He has to come down to Earth to do it all by Himself in human form so that he can bring a "new message" to these stupid humans who just can't seem to grasp his "clearly laid out plan", and then he sacrifices Himself to Himself as a loophole for a rule he made (Plan F).

And if you don't believe all this to be true, you get to spend eternity being tortured, even if you never got to hear this story (Plan FU).

[McCulloch]

Fortunately, the vehemence with which an opinion is voiced has no direct correlation with the veracity of the opinion.

I doubt that is true. I suspect that there is a negative correlation between the vehemence with which an opinion is voiced and the veracity of the opinion. But that is only my personal opinion based on select observations.

[Fallibleone]

Point taken.