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There is no God and no one was actually kicked out of a mythical garden, I believe the point of this parable was to obey the word of God (that we made up) without question or thought.
Saying God is a scumbag for kicking them out is missing the point of the tale. Blind obedience is considered a virtue. Listening to others and then making your own moral judgments (right or wrong) contrary to the word of God is a sin.

I'm sorry, but this is an incorrect take.
For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:13‭-‬14 NKJV
And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. And He said to the man who had the withered hand, “Step forward.” Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
Mark 3:1‭-‬5 NKJV
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Imagine you're just born and days later you're fucking your clone. Next thing you know God curses you and your offspring for a thousand generations because you ate the wrong fruit. >

The fruit thing feels like a setup anyway. It's like you left out a bowl of candy for a kid and told him to never eat one certain kind in the bowl. >

That is explicitly how theology proposes this works.
The crime wasn’t in the action (eating fruit) but in disobeying god.
The issue with this is.... the fruit they ate was that of knowledge of good and evil.
How the hell were Adam and Eve supposed to know that disobeying god was wrong if they don’t have a concept of right or wrong prior to eating the fruit? 
Rhetorical question. Of fucking course, they couldn’t. So they and their offspring would suffer for committing a crime they didn’t possess the capacity to knowingly commit until the moment they’d committed said crime. 
God is a scumbag. >

I thought they got kicked out because they broke obedience to God. Obeying an order doesn't require you to consider if said order is good or evil. >

The issue is they couldn’t have known that disobedience was wrong in the first place.
God said don’t do it, satan said they should. How should they know who to listen to?
Answer is they can’t. Because they literally don’t understand right from wrong until after eating the fruit.
This is the equivalent of punishing a baby who’s drawn on the walls with crayon after telling them they can’t by chucking them out of the house. >

There is no God and no one was actually kicked out of a mythical garden, I believe the point of this parable was to obey the word of God (that we made up) without question or thought.
Saying God is a scumbag for kicking them out is missing the point of the tale. Blind obedience is considered a virtue. Listening to others and then making your own moral judgments (right or wrong) contrary to the word of God is a sin.