The biblical literalists are literally running a huge chunk of our country (USA) right now. American evangelicals are fucking deranged.
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FishFace@piefed.social 1 day agoNone of it’s that fucked up if you interpret it as a creation story that’s about why things are the way they are rather than something that literally happened.
Creation stories do tend to involve incest because there weren’t many folks around. And you’re not meant to worry about understanding of deceit because it’s explaining why life isn’t perfect and served that function perfectly well.
Of course, this still presents a problem for literal believers. But they’re a minority (and have been for hundreds of years).
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DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I can agree with you there. There’s no hate like Christian “love”.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It shows a being that believers say is the ultimate moral authority, God, behaving in a morally abhorrent way.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
How does it show that when it’s describing events that didn’t happen?
If the events never happened, the point of the story is to derive some other kind of truth or message, which means the story needs to be interpreted to derive that message. If you interpret it the way it was intended, you get a message about the world being imperfect, even though you might believe in a benevolent God. If you interpret it in a different way, you’ll get a different message.
You should think about the biblical creation myth the same way you would think about any other ancient mythology. We’re not going around making fun of the ancient Greeks and their mythology because Zeus was a ho and the stories don’t make any sense through modern eyes: we generally take them as they are, and use them to understand how the ancients understood the world they were in.