RE: Why did Communists promote Evolution?
July 28, 2023 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2023 at 2:38 pm by HappySkeptic.)
(July 28, 2023 at 1:36 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I think the subtext of the story also makes it far different from a coming of age story.
A coming of age story centers on the growth from childhood to adulthood, with the adulthood being implicitly the natural next stage and irrespective of whether the individual protagonist of the story thrived by reaching it, it is regarded as a uplift in broader sense over what came before. Coming of age is ultimately an affirmation of humanity.
The Abrahamic story is precisely the opposite. It is a story of degradation, with the state of infantilism at the beginning being the idea and the state of responsibility a state of enforced degradation . The only uplift is to return to the state of infantilism and that is only made possibly by complete subservient to a divine old man who like the Bronze Age Middle East despot demand to be regarded as completely removed from any state achievable by mere mortals. The abrahamic story is fundamentally an affirmation of misanthropy.
I think you're right. That is why even some theologians think that the Fall was a necessary good thing.
Genesis said that knowing both good and evil put Man on par with the gods, and made us a threat. This was either part of God's plan, or he just wasn't very good at his job (perhaps he was an idiot among the other gods).
