cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/71446600
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/2378938/you-know-japheth-maybe-this-wasn-t-such-a-good-idea
“You know, Japheth… maybe this wasn’t such a great idea.”
This appears to be by Rusty Epstein. More:
https://www.google.com/search?q=comics+by+someone+who+signs+"Rusty"&udm=2


If you squint hard enough, the beginning of Genesis describes solar system evolution followed by biological evolution. Some animals are out of order, but it’s kinda close.
The Garden of Eden’s curse is humans growing big brains from the Tree of Knowledge. We could no longer swing through the trees eating fruit and the occasional howler monkey. We had to toil for our food (agriculture). Then our big brains made childbirth painful and difficult. Women are relegated to a patriarchal society where some apes have a matriarchal or co-leadership society.
Cherry on top is that now we must wear clothes because we now know we’re naked and find that shameful, an alien concept to animals who didn’t eat the fruit. All of our curses are a direct result of evolving high intelligence. :)
Of all the origin myths, which are about as likely as Discworld, the beginning of Genesis is perfectly sensible.
SPOILER: It quickly goes bugfuck. A man God calls righteous offers his daughters to the mob as rape bait, then later those same daughters raping dad.
One son becoming, living and active word of god, you shall not worship a graven image. Jesus calls the jews liars and frauds, large rebuke of moses and his law…yeah that take is pretty accurate
Um, you’re getting quite far away from Genisys there. I wasn’t talking about Christianity as a whole.