So, an old man who was quite wealthy, retired and moved into my town. Being a philanthropist, he had a playground constructed in our town for young children. We all thought this was really nice of him. But then, he put a set of shelves filled with assorted candies in the middle of the park.
The rule was that the children could play in the park and enjoy it as much as they liked, but they must never eat any of the candy that is on the shelves. If they did, he would ban them from the park and hunt them down. They would be tortured forever.
The town citizens were enraged and had the old man locked up.
However, when this is done in a mythological story on a grander scale, it becomes part of the holy book. The "old man" is justified in all that he does.
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