re: #612 Naso Tang

I’ve always wondered how things would have been if there was a religion with a commandment that said something like:

“You have been given intelligence in order to prove your worth by deciphering how this universe works, without reference to ME”.

Maybe there would have been people on the moon, even before they populated Europe. Maybe a few Neanderthals would have come along too.

Actually, the first commandment I am the Lord your God is interpreted as a commandment to seek and find God through your reason and by unraveling his mysteries - at least according to the commentaries.

There are those who firmly believe that we are precisely to use our big brains. Heck we even have a tradition of arguing with HIm.