Eternal punishment is pointless.

[abaris]

As for the literal interpretation, it doesn't make sense in any way other than as a heavy-duty tool of ideological indoctrination and supression.

And every christian denomination has their own little way to riddle it out. That's what's making GC's point of "knowledge" so ludicrous. He doesn't say, which church he attends, so it's nearly impossible to guess his Adam and Eve fairy tale.

And as I said above, the Catholics have abandoned the Adam and Eve bullshit. The only part they kept is original sin, which brings it to a whole new level of ludicrous.

It does work better as a metaphor, but then you lose the idea of original sin, which I think is important to the Jesus story.

Yeah, without it, there's no need for wonder boy.