(June 29, 2017 at 11:53 am)Astonished Wrote:(June 29, 2017 at 11:47 am)Jehanne Wrote: I was making a joke.
Some would say that you have no right to Heaven, the Beatific Vision, and because of the original sin of Adam & Eve (who never existed), you deserve eternal Hell, infants included.
Ignoring the fact that it's all actually Yahweh's fuck-up once again. Poor security in the garden that allowed the snake in, poor design in creating the snake and enabling it to speak, programming into the humans that fatal curiosity, putting the tree there in the first place, not putting anything around it to make them think twice about whether the effort of reaching it would be worth it, not surrounding it with more tempting things to distract them, expecting them to understand consequences without foreknowledge of good and evil...
I mean, if we were to take this to court as a liability suit, Yahweh would get his ass sued off every fucking time.
The Genesis myth only makes sense if you see it as Hebrew literature that was inherited from the ingenious peoples living in the Euphrates region at that time. The early Jews believed that the Earth was flat and above it was this huge dome of water which is where rain came from, and that the Sun & Moon were celestial orbs that went around the earth with the stars being points of light that shown down and/or through from Heaven, which is where God was.
