"In another part of the world I have watched elderly people and even cripples crawling painfully on their hands and knees to some distant temple. They believe that by inflicting pain on themselves they will make their gods happy. But in testing man, God merely asked him to refrain from one simple act."
Getting it all Together p.20 Don Hawley
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: Genesis 2;17