RE: Are some theists afraid of atheists?
August 17, 2017 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2017 at 2:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, people focus too much on the knowledge of good and evil, particularly in light of original sin. The sin was not "eating a fruit" had god told them not to pick up pinks stones..that would have been the sin - it was what that act represented. Disobedience, disbelief. God had told them that they couldn't eat the fruit, he told them that they would die. The Dragon made a compelling case to the Rib Woman that this was..if not an outright lie, not the whole truth. Turned out, the Dragon wasn't bullshitting her, so she gave some fruit to Dirt Man, like you do.
The compelling themes in this narrative are, in my opinion, largely lost in popular conception of the story through centuries of ignorant literalism. OFC it doesn't make any sense if you view it through that lens, that lens is batshit crazy. What it does make sense as, is an establishment myth set to the tune of the Nick Cage Theory of Parenting, which is something we still subject our children to routinely, unto this very day. If you do x, then you'll -DIE!-.
I know you're having all sorts of new thoughts Sally, but if you open that boys pants you'll get an std....and then you'll -DIE!-. It's telling, that god cursed the man, essentially, to working for a living, and the woman, to having a painful child birthing experience.
The compelling themes in this narrative are, in my opinion, largely lost in popular conception of the story through centuries of ignorant literalism. OFC it doesn't make any sense if you view it through that lens, that lens is batshit crazy. What it does make sense as, is an establishment myth set to the tune of the Nick Cage Theory of Parenting, which is something we still subject our children to routinely, unto this very day. If you do x, then you'll -DIE!-.
I know you're having all sorts of new thoughts Sally, but if you open that boys pants you'll get an std....and then you'll -DIE!-. It's telling, that god cursed the man, essentially, to working for a living, and the woman, to having a painful child birthing experience.
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