RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 29, 2014 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2014 at 9:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's a question that wouldn't have bothered the culture from which the genesis myth originates. They never saw genesis, or gods covenant, or god as pertaining to anyone but themselves (and hell, to be fair, it's pretty clear that the jewish line on that particular portion of genesis is not and has never been literalism). Only by cultural appropriation and reinterpretation did the christians (for example) come to see themselves as successors or parties to this arrangement or history, as those at the hand of the one doing the smiting, rather than being those who were to be smitten. Only by ignorance of another's literary or oral tradition (a common pitfall of appropriation) did they make the mistake of a literal interpretation of some magical garden.
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