God and Second Life "Just read it, and you will find, about the twenty-third verse, that God caused all the animals to walk before Adam in order that he might name them. And the animals came like a menagerie into town, and as Adam looked at all the crawlers, jumpers, and creepers, this God stood by to see what he would call them. After this procession passed it was pathetically remarked, 'Yet was there not found any helpmeet for Adam.' Adam didn't see anything he could fancy. And I am glad he didn't. If he had there would not have been a free-thinker in this world; we should have all died orthodox. And finding Adam was so particular, God had to make him a helpmeet, and having used up the nothing he was compelled to take part of the man to make the woman with and he took from the man a rib. How did he get it? And then imagine a God with a bone in his hand, and about to start a woman, trying to make up his mind whether to make a blonde or a brunette." - Robert Ingersoll, "Mistakes of Moses," in "Mistakes of Robert Ingersoll," J. B. McClure, ed., Chicago, 1879. http://www.alansondheim.org/kiravlfhandheld.mp4 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
