Adam and Eve Saved the Environment

[Annik]

The Eden story of being punished for attaining knowledge seems quite the fitting comparison to illiterate humanity who should simply believe as the church teaches rather than question divine authority. For to question is to gain knowledge and thereby realize faith is based on nothing more than mere ignorance. After all, what better way to keep followers than to instill fear of disobeying?

The writers of the Unholy Babble knew precisely what they were doing in terms of enslaving mankind with religion.

I honestly doubt that considering how isolationist the Jewish community was. They only wrote these stories down when they thought they society would collapse. The Jewish people were "chosen" and you have to be Jewish to be saved. Early Christians were a lot like this as well, but that has little to do with my point. That being that the Jewish people who thought of these folk tales (and the writers of the Adam and Eve story) probably weren't thinking of enslaving humanity with their religion. Maybe the editors and translators of these texts are more to blame.