Consciousness: A Great Sin

"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness," states John in "Diamond as Big as the Ritz". God invented consciousness, according to the Bible at least. Ergo, Fitzgerald, through John, accuses God of being a sinner for forcing him to realize the gravity of the situation and leave their, not hyperbolas,  mountain of wealth.  By leaving their wealth and their carefree, luxurious lifestyle, they are leaving paradise. As they leave paradise, paralleling how Adam and Eve left Eden, they come to realize that now they must work for their own happiness, they must endure pain, but more terrifyingly, reality. John doesn't want to admit that his happiness was at the cost of the suffering of the slaves, the imprisonment of the sailors, the death of Kismine's various friends. In fact, John purposefully overlooks these "unfortunate murders" that "stained these happy years of progress and expansion". For the absence of this,  John - our own little sinning, selfish, horribly irritating Adam - curses God, declaring him, too, a sinner. To me at least, this seems incredibly ironic, because a sin, since I was but a babe, my mother praising my heavenly Father at my side, has always been to displease Him, God Himself. So, by this rational, God displeased God when he gave Adam and Eve conscious, including embarrassment at their own nudity. Bad God, Fitzgerald seems to say, for allowing all this corruption to fester in greed and money, how dare you have let us be this way, Daddy dearest.