Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has taken her trademark blend of conspiracy theories and performative outrage to new heights — literally. This time, she’s
The same kind that takes the first humans, who, not having knowledge of good and evil, places them in a garden with a tree whose fruit would give them that knowledge, tells them, ‘yeah, but don’t eat that fruit.’, and then blames them when they eat the fruit.
if the story is to be believed… god set humanity up to fall. literally. so that he could then come down and rape teenage girl so that he could be born into this world, so that he could kill himself, to save us from himself…
By any reasonable moral system God is unjust in punishing them for eating from the tree. They couldn’t be culpable for their transgression because they didn’t have knowledge of good and evil prior to eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Without that knowledge they were incapable of making an ethical decision. The Garden of Eden, like many of the stories in the old testament isn’t a story of the failure of man, it’s a story of the failure of God.
To Gnosticism, God from the Old Testament, also known as the Demiurge, is an asshole who incorrectly thinks that he really is God. The Demiurge also happens to agree with a lot of MAGA policies (people who don’t believe in the Demiurge are inherently evil, and eye for an eye). The Demiurge has low tolerance for anything that looks like treason, so it makes sense that he would kick Adam and Eve out for defying him.
The same kind that takes the first humans, who, not having knowledge of good and evil, places them in a garden with a tree whose fruit would give them that knowledge, tells them, ‘yeah, but don’t eat that fruit.’, and then blames them when they eat the fruit.
if the story is to be believed… god set humanity up to fall. literally. so that he could then come down and rape teenage girl so that he could be born into this world, so that he could kill himself, to save us from himself…
By any reasonable moral system God is unjust in punishing them for eating from the tree. They couldn’t be culpable for their transgression because they didn’t have knowledge of good and evil prior to eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Without that knowledge they were incapable of making an ethical decision. The Garden of Eden, like many of the stories in the old testament isn’t a story of the failure of man, it’s a story of the failure of God.
To Gnosticism, God from the Old Testament, also known as the Demiurge, is an asshole who incorrectly thinks that he really is God. The Demiurge also happens to agree with a lot of MAGA policies (people who don’t believe in the Demiurge are inherently evil, and eye for an eye). The Demiurge has low tolerance for anything that looks like treason, so it makes sense that he would kick Adam and Eve out for defying him.