| Re: Is the Garden of Eden fact or metaphor? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: sleepykitsleepykit Date: Mar 10, 2008 12:35
On Mar 10, 12:53Â pm, Santolina chamaecyparissus juno.com>
wrote:> On Mar 10, 9:23Â am, ComandanteBanana yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>> 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?
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>> So, it's a metaphor, I guess.
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> Allegory.
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>> 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?
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> You are flawed, mortal, and at the mercy of a powerful deity.
A deity that seems to blame me for its mistakes. Lovely.
Actually, and somewhat less cynically, you have to believe the rest of
the fairytale to believe there's a deity in the first place, so in
essence the disbelievers are not at the mercy of anything other than
fellow human beings.
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