Something about the Adam and Eve story - maybe a number of things - always bothered me. Why would God ask them where they'd been and what they'd been doing? Didn't God know, or was that just the first rhetorical question? When Adam blamed Eve, God seems to take Adam at his word, like blaming the woman is a legitimate defense for stupidity. This line of nonsense reasoning explains a lot about patriarchal society.
Why didn't God ask the obvious question: How could you be so stupid to believe a snake was talking to you?
So, I've rewritten a little portion of the story to suit myself for matters of believe-ability.
Eve was off by herself exploring the Garden. Adam decided to pull a little prank on her. He rolled up some banana leaves into a makeshift megaphone and threw his voice. When Eve looked around to see where the voice was coming from, she only saw a snake. When Adam saw her eating the forbidden fruit, he realized his joke had gone too far, but he was too far away from her, and he couldn't reach her in time.
Adam loved Eve, and he'd rather die with her than live his life without her, so he, too, ate from the forbidden tree.
Doesn't that make more sense than what Moses wrote?
Love it!
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