We all have an "absurdity" checker in our minds (well, most of us do), but many have found clever ways to get around it and hence come to believe such absurdities as original sin and a divine/human sacrifice to magically offset a divine curse on all mankind because the supposed first man and woman committed a minor act of disobedience.  The whole thing, no matter how metaphorically one chooses to take it, is patently absurd and worthy or not just rebuke but mocking.  That we refrain is just being polite.

What do I see here?  I see an effort to put absurdities such as I have just mentioned on a level equal to that of reason and objectivity.  Down that road lies superstition and the destruction, in the end, of education and civilization and learning.  Of course we are not in such danger today, I think mainly because the major elites of learning see the reality, but we don't know what may happen in the future and it behooves those who support reason over superstition and faith claims to do whatever reasonably possible to control it.

I have to say I tire of all this, and really can't see how people can be so stupid or blind or whatever one is to call it.  Reason and critical thinking are superior and myth and spiritual superstition and basing beliefs on faith or tradition or authority are clearly not only inferior but worthless.