Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 05, 2021

So here’s the story: A talking snake in a magic garden convinces a gullible woman to eat an enchanted (but forbidden) fruit which makes the invisible sky god very angry.

The sin this woman committed? Partaking of the Tree of KNOWLEDGE.

Daring to want KNOWLEDGE is the enemy of religious superstition and the one thing that can destroy its power to control the ignorant.

God sets newly-created naïve gullible innocents in a garden and pits them against an evil genius, a demonic being who has co-existed for millennia (or billennia) with an all-powerful deity who apparently is not all-powerful enough to simply eliminate this font of evil, and somehow considers it an even playing field for the game of temptation in which all of humanity will be scarred for someone else’s “sins.”

So this petulant, admittedly (self-described) “jealous” god curses Adam and Eve with an evil spell called “sin” that, after drowning women, children, babies, old people because they had too much of this curse, he decided it could only be cured with a human sacrifice, in which god has to impregnate a teenage virgin with himself, so he could become his own son, grow up and then sacrifice himself to himself to save the world from himself, but only for those who demonstrate their acceptance of the sacrifice by eating his flesh and drinking his blood and wearing a miniature implement of death penalty around their necks.

Sounds reasonable.

And yeah, seems like plenty of grounds for appeal, but does not seem like a court that would be much interested in justice.

http://danizier.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/bloody-human-sacrifice-atonement-mythology/

A Lawyer in Paradise!?

What’s next!? Making the woman wanting to be in control a sin!?

What a world! What a world!

Oups… most religions DO think that! (Shrug!) I’ll still bite that apple! (Smirk!)

And the first shark in a suit .

Him: “I didn’t eat the apple!…..And she made me eat it. Not my fault.”

Her: “What a man. (sarcasm extreme)”.

Quite clearly, an apple a day does NOT keep the litigator away…

Actually, Adam is meeting the first two-legged “snake” after Eve spoke with the legless variety.

Love the expression on the snakes face though.

I’m surprised the serpent didn’t offer up his own services as counsel….

At least we know the lawyer didn’t eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge.

Ask for a trial by jury. Good luck finding a jury of peers.

Why do we have organized controlling religions? The answer depends upon which side of the pulpit (or rock) you’re on.

If you are listening to the one up front then your answer is from All The President’s Men…FOLLOW THE MONEY.

If you are speaking from the pulpit then you’re a Jerry Maguire fan…SHOW ME THE MONEY.

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“Follow the money" is a catchphrase from the 1976 docudrama film All the President’s Men. It suggests that corruption can be found by examining money transfers between parties.

“Show me the money” is a well-known statement by characters in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire

It is quite a bit older than that!

Cui bono (meaning “who benefits” was used by Lucius Cassius, a judge in the Roman Republic well over 2000 years ago.

I’ve always wondered why so many people justify having good morals by crediting them to a god.

“Because the Bible says so” could easily compete for one of the most ignorant statements ever.

Adam’s defense? “The Devil made me do it”.

Eve’s first words to Adam “Cover that thing up”.

The Bible is a monumental work of ancient literature that stands beside the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Shakespeare’s plays in relating human nature’s good, bad and ugly complexity. A work of moral philosophy and “divine” purpose? Meh! Not so much. It’s a book.

Lawyers ate The Apple long before Adam and Eve. It was the fruit with Appeal.

…..a…peel?

I thought the snake was the lawyer

Oy!

“The Bible is a book. It’s a good book, but it is not the only book.” Henry Drummond (played by Spencer Tracey) in Inherit The Wind; screenplay by Nathan Young and Harold Jacob Smith, adapting the stage play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee* (1960).

Okay, I know it’s not the point but I have a sudden desire for an apple pie. …tsk

We are the smartest monkeys.

“A lawyer, then, is a member of the oldest profession extant; for as he lives upon the rottenness of human nature, the first human crime made room for a lawyer” (Alfred Butler, Elphinstone, vol 1, 1841, p.189).

You can’t tell us what to do.

on the other hand you can’t be too careful see you on Sunday

A good lawyer would know if the evidence is all eaten, it no longer exists so cannot be presented in court, ergo there is no evidence and no guilt.

The fundamental root of all “reverse psychology” was the Garden of Eden prohibition against eating from the Tree of Knowledge. It worked. We have our problems but knowledge is our shield.

A little levity is called for: Always reminds me of the Richard Prior bit -The Richard Pryor Show – Reverend James L. White

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Richard+Prior+skit+of+the+%22reverened%22&docid=608015907653225840&mid=DDCEEC18ADDC8DD0B3C5DDCEEC18ADDC8DD0B3C5&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

And on the seventh day God was so exhausted that he created lawyers by mistake.

The snake is an emblem of the older goddess based religions. It had to be demonized.

Attorneys ruined the Garden of Eden!?!

hence my major problems will ALL religions

“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth. man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.

“Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger. but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits. so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived.

“The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’ but in fact the message was this: So Long and thanks for all the fish.

“In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running round inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures plans.”

Chapter 23, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Wiley can certainly stir up a hornets nest of pseudo-intellectuals.

Well reading the Bible, might take less time than the comment section.

“Now put some clothes on!”

Ok, new comment with the most likes I’ve ever seen.

See Robert Heinlein’s novel: “Job: A Comedy of Justice” for additional commentary.

@Wiley – Thank you for stirring the pot.

Religion, specifically organized religion, is about control. Spirituality is about self-recognition, knowledge and realization of truth.

Most religions seem to like to blame the women . . .

Cute snake.