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into wine at the wedding in Canaan, and on the other we have the strict Christian faith of the Mormons and Baptists who do not partake of soda pop and certainly not of alcoholic beverages. On the one hand we have a faith which covers their women from head to foot lest they be regarded as objects of desire and on the other we have zealots of this faith seek the martyrdom that will earn them possession of eighteen virgins in their heaven. What makes these dogmatists think that God would permit them behaviors in His heaven that He would not allow them on this earth? That is puzzling.

It is apparent that we can pick and choose when it comes to our faiths. Some take the collection of writings and manuscripts that were all written independently over a period of about seven hundred years and compiled into a tome we call the bible to be the literal Word of God, and call it a divine compilation. Back in the days when those words were written one who could actually write was considered in very high esteem indeed, and such a skill could have only come to them as a gift from God. Nowadays everybody blogs their heart's content, pun intended, and most of it is not nearly holy.

It's obvious to the subjective and non-prejudiced practical one that the story of Adam and Eve is a fable, intended to teach the young about the responsibilities of growing up, when their innocence (the garden of Eden) would be lost to them (eviction therefrom). Like all young adults they would eventually fall victim to temptations of the flesh, and with that would come the inevitable responsibility of child-rearing. Those who actually believe that the events of that story are literally true are intellectually blind. The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, akin to eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, was no doubt invented by powers who had that knowledge and who selfishly sought to deny others the opportunity to acquire it for their greed brought them great wealth, and wealth is still concentrated in the hands of the few.

The narrative of the creation in the Book of Genesis is completely bereft of any scientific method. Obviously, its author had no answer to the biggest riddle of them all: where did it all come from? I can't help but get the impression that it was prepared after the compilation of all those fables and narratives, legends, poetry and song, historical data, and hallucinations that make up the Bible. It's a good preamble. But it certainly isn't fact. Take

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