Well, I don't mean that it really happened, but that Christians
*believe* it really happened. Or do they rather believe it's only a
metaphor and thus it doesn't have to be believable?

So, it's a metaphor, I guess. But what's the moral of it? Don't obey
talking serpents? The carnivores were vegetarian? Don't trust women?
Or obey orders from God? The fate of humanity clings on this
metaphor...

Obeying orders though brought the Germans to commit the worst
crimes... Hey, I've got a better metaphor! (It even got the lion and
the forbidden fruit in it...)

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Once upon a time, in the deep jungle, lived a Lion and a Monkey... One
day the Monkey, tired of the Lion taking the LION'S SHARE, and seeing
that such injustice represented a danger to all, demanded JUSTICE...
The Lion, yawning and stretching, said, "You would have to have paws
and sharp teeth..." Then the Monkey, who was very clever, devised a
plan: He would go to the costume store, and look like a lion...

ComandanteBanana yahoo.com> wrote in news:e2d283d0-
6c10-4a1c-be3a-3db426fc42a9@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com to alt.atheism
on 10 Mar 2008:

You aren't meant to know the difference between right and wrong. In
order to please Yahweh and be immortal you must become a psychopath.

--
David Silverman D.B.E.
aa #2208
Lord Mayor of Dis
Lawful copyright holder of the term "Earthquack".

On Mar 10, 12:23 pm, ComandanteBanana yahoo.com>
wrote:

It really happened

On Mar 10, 9:23 am, ComandanteBanana yahoo.com>
wrote:

It's either God created man literally himself using precise design or
life came about through happenstance.

MichaelNJ@gmail.com wrote in news:e8e56f0e-cc6d-4d04-956b-637202c5fd55
@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com to alt.atheism on 10 Mar 2008:

Where did you get your education from, Michael?

I recommend you take it back to them, ask for your money back and sue
the fuckers for damages.

On Mar 10, 9:56 am, Michae...@gmail.com wrote:

Unfortunately for *you*, Michael, there's no evidence that it "really
happened," and if it did, your god is a monster, as I've demonstrated
in other threads.

Evolution has been around for - what is it - about 1.5 billion years
now? It'll be around in another 2,000 years, no worries.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net

On Mar 10, 9:23 am, ComandanteBanana yahoo.com>
wrote:

Allegory.

You are flawed, mortal, and at the mercy of a powerful deity.

On Mar 10, 12:53 pm, Santolina chamaecyparissus juno.com>
wrote:

A deity that seems to blame me for its mistakes. Lovely.

On Mar 10, 12:35 pm, sleepykit gmail.com> wrote:

I think it is a metaphor for metaphysics and hermeneutics. It captures
the foundation of ontology, objectivity and its relationship to
morality, sexuality and work. It also captures the relationship of
pride or the will to ontology and in that sense it prefigured many of
the ideas of Nietzche in the form of Lucifer.

Just as each of us develops from single cell through the vestigal
stages of evolution so too if we trace the foundation of our ideas and
reflect effectively on our experience we can see a kind of vestige of
our growth and early childhood "education". Genisis is a reflection of
our cultural evolution as well as our own birth and early life just as
it is also a reflection of the foundation of our current ideas and
perceptions. It is a historistical document.

"We are stardust. We are golden. And we've got to get ourselves back
to the garden." Right? See what I mean?