Lazy Atheism?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The cain and abel thing is fun.  That's about the pastoralist source telling us that god likes his way of life better than the other guys.  Literally translated it's the story of Farmer and Herdsmen and according to magic book - there was a city on earth at the time.  

Robert L. O'Connell in The Soul of the Sword (a history of human weaponry, writ short) suggests that the divide between farmers and herdsmen may be one source of organized warfare, in that the two groups were fighting over land, one to use that land for crops, the other for pasturage. It's only supposition, which he makes clear in the book, but I think it's an interesting thought.

When we frame the fable of Cain and Abel in that light, it sure looks allegorical ... but again, that's supposition, on my part this time.

Given the known number of conflicts between farmers and herdsmen (for example, the 'range wars' of North and South America), it's not an unreasonable supposition. Resource control is frequently one of the chief causes of conflict. 

Boru