It's Playtime
Sex is supposed to be fun. Or is it? Did Adam and Eve actually have fun? Was it their giggling that caught God's attention and caused him to throw them out of the garden of Eden? This original sin thing has me sincerely befuddled. It seems to me God would have planned for sex to be fun so that people would be encouraged to do it. I mean, why in heaven's name would He discourage it. This is where the so-called intelligent design folks lose me, right there in the garden of Eden. When the Almighty created Adam and Eve, the book tells us, they were naked and without shame, so God made them be so ashamed they donned fig leaves. And then the good book gets a little smarmy on us, and instead of calling it like it is, puts it in terms of eating forbidden fruit. In other words, Adam and Eve had themselves a little fun and it pissed God off. So what was that? A programming glitch? Should God have done some beta testing before sending mankind out on his own? And here's another thing, they had kids, Cain and Abel, and Cain killed Abel and headed east to the land of Nod where he found this cute little number and had some fun with her and they made babies, and that started the begots that go on for pages of weird names, like Cainen who begot Mahalaleel, and Zillah and Lamech. So if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, where did all those Noddians come from? I think the whole thing maybe needs a rewrite.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:29 AM
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>>When the Almighty created Adam and Eve, the book tells us, they were naked and without shame, so God made them be so ashamed they donned fig leaves<
Theologians have always debated what “without shame” means. In God’s eyes was their shameless state a good or bad thing? Did God ever say “shame on you? Have you no shame?” Adam and Eve got booted out of the Garden, not for shamelessness, but because Eve got hungry and ate an apple. It’s hard to imagine that a piece of fruit contained all that forbidden knowledge. A watermelon maybe, but an apple?
Theologians also believe that God could not have disapproved of sex as He wanted man and woman to procreate. Maybe somewhere in that apple or watermelon was the Kama Sutra. Once Adam and Eve digested it, and realized that procreation could also be a helluva lot of fun, provided you were athletic, they may have overdone it.
My final conclusion is that God isn’t against Sex. He just doesn’t like us having too good a time doing it.
A lot of good Bible study going on there, prof, to which I'd only add that for sex to be fun you don't have to be athletic. There's physical sex play, yes, but there's also intellectual sex play, though I admit that the thought of William F. Buckley getting it on with Betty Friedan is a bit of a gross-out.
I was feeling pretty good until the remark about Buckley and Friedan. Now I have to reach for the pink liquid stuff. Love your comments, il professore. I lean toward the watermelon theory, says she grinning. Will not comment on the S_E_X as I am a good girl, I am. Innocent as a new borne lamb. Or maybe almost as innocent, well, one-forth as innocent, ok, ok, not answering no more questions on the grounds that I might ......................or until my attorney arrives.
This cartoon had me laughing half the night.
Yes I'm all for the watermelon theory too... all that fuss over one little apple and a couple of fig leaves. My mother used to say "Man proposes... God disposes" I think the whole Adam and Eve yarn was a case of man proposing. (not sure whatever happened to him... but after the lightning struck he was kinda out of the picture)... Great comedy John.
>>I'd only add that for sex to be fun you don't have to be athletic. There's physical sex play, yes, but there's also intellectual sex play.<<
If by intellectual sex play you are talking about some sort of verbal foreplay, I’m all for it. But unless all that talking ends in some sort of physical activity, sex play is usually more interruptus than coitus.
No comment here. Kumpft. That's me trying to hold in my giggle.
Jean is right about one thing. The most fun is definitely behind the scenes!
This day certainly started out with a laugh that will keep me going at least all morning.
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