--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > This is the reason why Adam and Eve were banished from > > the Garden of Eden. > > Are you INSANE? > > Adam and Eve never existed. Nor did the Garden > of Eden. These are all *stories* made up to > entertain stupid people. Oedipus put his eyes out because he realized he had married his own mother. > Clearly you seem to BE one.
The fox said the grapes were sour because he was pissed off that he couldn't reach them. > You're ALSO the person who trots out equally > made-up stories from the Gita or the Vedas to > excuse inexcusable actions or beliefs. Those > stories never happened, either, and those > "people" never existed. They're MYTHS. King Midas died of starvation because he had prayed for the power to turn everything he touched to gold. > The good part about myths is that they can be > used to teach concepts. The bad part about myths > is that stupid people tend to believe that the > stories really happened. And then there are the utterly hopeless nitwits like Barry who can't tell the difference between someone citing a myth to make a point about what it teaches, and insisting the myth really happened. (This is especially likely to be a source of confusion when the hopeless nitwit has a desperate need, like Barry, to put somebody down to make himself feel More Important. Sometimes these nitwits are so driven they hallucinate that *EVERYBODY* is insisting the myth really happened even when *nobody* is.) > And then they trot out the myths AS IF they > really happened, and use them to excuse their > bigotry, hatred, and homophobia, as John just > did above. Actually, I don't believe the Adam and Eve myth had anything to do with homosexuality. At least, not the one in the Bible that John is referring to. And the "as if" is in Barry's mind, not in John's, as is the hatred. That's where the accusations of bigotry and homophobia come from.
