[Wings of Fire]

The main problem I have with the mythos behind the fall is virtuous hypocrisy, if good people are only good because they want to enter paradise isn't this largely economically driven and counterproductive to the whole idea of the sacrifice?

If I died and came in front of the Gates of Heaven with God looking down on me and all I assumed was falsehoods turns out to be true, if He then looks at me and says 'You did not obey my commands, when seeing your love you felt lust, when seeing your achievements you felt pride, gluttony was riding in your bedroom and sloth was ever evident, you did not repent, you did not ask for my forgiveness, you do not deserve me. What do you have to say about that?' I will say to him simply that I lived my life by my own virtues and my own morals, using what I know and think by my faculties of reason and experience what is right instead of doing what others told me. I lived. loved, learnt and lost by the strength, power and wisdom that He himself gave me, and if that wisdom and strength of mind had to be sacrificed to do things written in a book, things my very self screamed against doing, things I knew were wrong as a memory in blood. Then He can keep His heaven, it's no place I'd find eternal happiness.