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In the beginning God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and Evangelicals have been avoiding knowledge ever since.

Benthoven 8 July 18
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Adam and Eve had no parents. Their god father had demands but taught them nothing. How old were they when they ate the apple? 2? Would you throw your ignorant uneducated children out of the house at two because they disobeyed you and gained an apples worth knowledge? The Adam and Eve story is such a stupid lie lol. You would have to brainwash a child from birth until adulthood to get one to believe it.

jrhere Level 5 July 18, 2019

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

@BufftonBeotch It is an issue that was debated for years by the churches. If you look at many pictures from the middle ages you will find that artists often covered that area of their bodies, in order to avoid the chioce. Because as the debates ranged, being on the wrong side could get you into deep trouble, I have heard that it could get you killed.

@Fernapple And all this time I thought it was to hide their naughty bits.

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That's what happens when you're told to read only one book.

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"Do not eateth from the Tree of Knowledge, the BBC, or PBS! Seeketh your enlightenment from FOX News!"

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No room for Science if you have faith.

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Exactly correct. Keep in mind that god did not like mankind for not doing what he said and he condemned us to populate the earth through incest. This was possible because of the extra long lives people lived then. Something about this pissed god off also even though it was his plan. The second time around he drowned everyone except for 8 people and the animals, saving them all on a big boat, and he started that same plan of incest once again!

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She should have just eaten the banana.

That's what Adam said 🤣

@Heidi68 But nooooo!

@Sticks48 yes, yes, yaaas! 😅😅

@Heidi68 Maybe she ate the banana first and that is how she talked him into eating the apple. Maybe if he had eaten the peach, she would have forgotten about the apple. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. 🙂 Is that the right order?

@Sticks48 mmmmm peaches - they could be, yeah, nevermind 🤣

@Heidi68 They are! 🙂

@Heidi68: Peaches

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Perfect explanation!

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Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit. Did they have full innocence? If they did and did not know what doing wrong was? They would be oblivious to the repercussions of their own actions. How could they, and their prodigy and all humans be responsible and have sin.

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Love it! Thanks for making my day!!! 😆

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I find it more than merely disappointing that The Hebrew/Christian/Muslim God's first directive to humankind is to remain ignorant.

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Exactly! You nailed it. Love it.

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If you have not watched Good Omens yet....do this.

It skewers every last thing about all that shit in a perfect way.

Yup perfect

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It was the tree of the knowledge of good vs. evil, in other words it was dualistic thinking that brought all their troubles. Everything is good by default but they went and allowed the concept of evil into their thinking and there’s been the sensation of fear and unhappiness ever since.

It was Eve’s fault, damn it.

@Gwendolyn2018 The old man gave Eve a break because she was an attractive woman but then she enticed Adam and God could see that things were about to get out of hand.

But I agree in principle. Blaming your actions on somebody else shows lack of courage. Yet I understand Adams position. He was hoping to please Eve by accepting the Apple, hoping to keep her in a good mood so she’d be amenable to his advances.

@Gwendolyn2018 This is news to me, this Lilith gal, But wait—does that mean I’m missing TWO ribs? What the hell?

and men still think they're missing one rib?

@Gwendolyn2018 Thanks for the education—they didn’t teach us such things in Sunday School.

You seem especially informed about Hebrew myths. Are you Jewish?

@Gwendolyn2018, @TimeOutForMe Just joking around.

@Gwendolyn2018 it was TimeOut that didn’t know we were joking. Congratulations on your success in a field you love.

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Knowledge is invariably dangerous to ideologues, those in power. Seekers of knowledge find information that contradicts what the powers that be want people to know. These contradictions undermine power and control.

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The whole of Christian dogma hangs on the validity of the Adam and Eve myth. Without the Fall of Adam, there is no need for the propitiation of Original Sin, and thus no need for the human sacrifice/Jesus. Jesus mentions Adam in the same passage with Moses. Thus, Jesus believed both Moses and Adam were real people. Thus, Jesus did not believe Adam was a metaphor as so many now suggest. The proof that humans evolved from lower forms also prove that Eden, Adam and Eve never happened, and as corollary, that Christianity is a pack of lies.

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I thought it was the tree of knowledge of good & evil? The Bible also mentions the tree of eternal life, but that plotline goes nowhere.

But for the sake of the joke. 😉

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True!

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And they've been doing an amazing job!

JimG Level 8 July 18, 2019
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Very rigorously avoiding any knowledge

bobwjr Level 10 July 18, 2019
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Yes, that's where they got the idea from.

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So they do sometimes do logic then.

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in some ways theyre lucky. as it says in the bible: the more knowledge, the more grief. cant argue with that.

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It's hard to believe there who people humanity decended from 2 people, which makes no sense.

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This explains it all. it's orthodoxy. In the beginning was The Word. And the word was placed in The Book. (Bible). In fact that's what the Bible is, a bunch of words. Literally. Write that down.

Ask the religious and they will say "God is the word and the word is god". And I say " No word = no god." Spreading the word creates the god and that is why it is so important to spread the word. Without the word the christian god simply doesn't exist in any form - not even in the imaginary. Native Americans never saw one sign of the Hebrew god existence from the beginning of time until the 1400s when Columbus brought "the word" to the new world to begin creating the god there. If you would have asked the religious when they found the native people " Hey why did god ignore the lives of billions of people in the new world all through time from the beginning of the world until the 1400s ?" And the answer from the church would have been - Natives are not people - they are animals with no soul and that is why god ignored them. And now you know how the christian organization called the ku Klux Klan got started as well as when racism took hold in America. Calling the native people of color "animals" paved the way for god sanctioned murdering and raping and the theft of land and resource from the natives. After all Christians where just doing the work of god as they cleansed the land of the wicked godless animals with no brains or soul and it was a win for god and all of christian who got all of the free stuff just for believing the lie was true.

@jrhere Are you familiar with the speech of Seattle before Congress in 1856? Shows how the indigenous people had a more spiritual and humane religion than the invading white man.

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