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Creation Dilemma
Sam Aurelius Milam III In the June 2003 issue of this newsletter, I published an article titled Creation Lesson. In that article, I speculated that, according to the creation story as told in the Holy Bible, either Adam's family engaged in incest or the Holy Bible is wrong about Adam and his family being the only people in the world at that time. In the next issue, I published a letter to the editor from one of my Christian subscribers. He acknowledged that the creation story, as presented in the Holy Bible, is incomplete and maybe even allegorical. If those things are true, then it's a problem for advocates of the Holy Bible. That's because those same things might also be true for the rest of the Holy Bible. I've heard another answer to the incest problem. According to that answer, Adam and Eve weren't really the first people on the planet. They were just the first ones with souls. That is, when God "created" Adam and Eve, He "created man" above the lower animals by giving souls to previously existing people who didn't have them. There are at least two problems with that explanation. The first problem is with regard to the previously existing people. Since they hadn't yet been "created" as men, they were other than, and less than, real humans. They were probably the equivalent of gorillas, or chimpanzees, or some such thing as that. Thus, if Adam's children avoided incest by breeding with those other people instead of breeding with Eve, then they committed the abomination of bestiality instead of committing the abomination of incest.1 It's a tough choice for Christians. Here's the second problem with the explanation. It claims that animals don't have souls. Thus, poor ol' Grandma won't find her dear dead little Fluffy waiting for her in Heaven after all. During October of 2008, I came across some interesting scripture in The First Book of Adam and Eve, a book of The Forgotten Books of Eden.2 According to that account of the creation, Cain had a twin sister named Luluwa. Abel had a twin sister named Aklemia or Aklia, depending upon which text you read. Here are some excerpts from The First Book of Adam and Eve.
So, it was incest, not bestiality. Even the simplest of research4 reveals that different factions of Christianity have different bibles. Whichever version you consider, it's inaccurate.5 At least some of it is allegorical, in spite of the Christians' insistence upon interpreting it literally when it suits them. Of course, they're happy to interpret it symbolically when they don't like the literal interpretation. Such selective interpretations make the Holy Bible a dandy tool of repression. Christians can use whatever interpretation they like to influence legislation, the cops, the courts, and the prisons. They can force the rest of us to behave according to their wishes. However, if we want to read pornography or visit prostitutes or commit adultery or even (gasp!) incest, then it shouldn't be any of their business.
Every time that I see America's Funniest Home Videos "fuzz out" the genitals of a child (an immature child, for Pete's sake!), I get angry all over again at the arrogant, aggressive, and repressive evangelism of the Christians.
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; my mother; Dewey and Betty; and Sir Donald the Elusive. editor
Court Quotes From Humor in the Court and More Humor in the Court, by Mary Louise Gilman, editor of the National Shorthand Reporter. Forwarded by Don G.
Definitions Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by Don G.
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