Quote:(September 1, 2011 at 3:31 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Again, that the eden narrative contributed to the notion of a woman's lessened worth....is another reason that it is an irrelevant narrative.
It must be the way we use language.
How can it be irrelevant when it is, as we speak, hurting a huge part of our citizens thanks to fools taking Genesis literally?
Quote: As a sort of heaven on earth narrative it can give us an idea of what kind of life that the authoring society felt would by idyllic, but beyond that...what is there? It's been suggested that the point of the tale was to show that knowledge of ones actions leads to immorality in a way that ignorance cannot. I don't personally subscribe to that view. But it makes for a hell of a metaphor.
Nor I. It is a crappy metaphor.
Knowledge of ones actions, knowing ones self IOW, is quite good.
Hell, even scripture says it is as knowing good and evil, knowing what sin is and if we have done any, leads to repentance and repentance according to scripture is all that is required to reach heaven.
Regards
DL
