• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        There are three options:

        1. That is a vegetarian lion.
        2. That is not a lion.
        3. This is not Eden.

        Of course, any reasonable person would immediately toss out 1 and 2. So, it must follow that this is not Eden, and that’s just some naked people who happen to be called Adam & Eve, making out and playing with large snakes, with lions in the background, who might be mere moments away from a bloody massacre.

      • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        The woman is tempted by a talking serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and gives some to the man, who eats also. (Contrary to popular myth she does not beguile the man, who appears to have been present at the encounter with the serpent). God punishes the man with a lifetime of hard labor followed by death, the woman with the pain of childbirth and subordination to her husband, and curses the serpent to crawl on its belly and endure enmity with both man and woman.