--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "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. >
Judy, Excellent observation. You picked my point precisely. One person here on the forum doesn't seem to get it.
