Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has taken her trademark blend of conspiracy theories and performative outrage to new heights — literally. This time, she’s
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.
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.