I can't say I do not believe in a God. I am not an Atheist. I often consider myself a clear minded God's opponent. Clear minded because people deem individuals like me, being antagonistic to an invisible entity, are possibly on their first stage of dementia. I believe there is a God who created everything. The perfection and balances of things are just too enormous to be ignored. Conversely, I am also disappointed in imperfections and horrors of many others. I also think a God who believes we ought to be punished for our actions in an imperfect world should not be trusted. Considering a penalty in eternity for things done in an hostile environment full of human guiles, lack,
evils, mutual suspicion and natural disasters is totally not impressive.
I believe the story of the garden of Eden- the paramount tale among many that embellishes the Christian Canon is not only the most incomplete in the world of literature but also the most tragic, misleading, barely didactic in nature,lacking in time honored wisdom. Why does the story tell only of the man's sudden descent into a brute condemned to suffer, to die and to experience pangs of labor for the rest of his miserable days in shortages and bodily fragility? How enlightened we would have been if the stories also contain details of the first perfect men and their marriages, trades, community, their government,parenting,their religion(s) and rituals and such trivial particulars as their nutrition,fashion(if it evolves from stark nakedness), pastimes,
contents of their leisure times , celebrations? It started with a brilliant works of creation, then almost immediately devolved into records of Eve's credulous stupidity, Adam's complicity and Good God's curses upon all humanity.The highlight of this story is of a nudist female's chitchat with a snake, and she taking dietary advice from the slithering animal. Sadly again the story of a fallen world culminates in the first children only immediately displaying acts of a wicked brute: Cain's killing Abel. Hardly a great read.
