re: #171 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

“and you will know good and evil” (paraphrased from Genesis)

This has puzzled me. Is there something wrong wit knowing good and evil? Is it better to live in a bubble called Eden and not participate in the rest of the world?

The whole interpretation of Genesis with which I grew-up made no sense to me then or now.

I think the idea was only YHWH and his assorted fellow gods of the time knew what was good and what was evil, and like an overprotective parent he wanted to keep Adam and Eve sheltered from the bad stuff for reasons. If A&E knew about G&E, then they’d be like the gods, or something.

Really, the story is pretty stupid. Every parent knows telling a kid “Don’t do that!” guarantees the kid will try at least once. Either God was a clueless, helicopter parent, or he was setting the kids up for a fall (heh heh) from the start.