I cannot understand this anti-religious mania. The basic way to present an idea is the parable.
Example:
-In 1954 Elias Kazan filmed the ?On the waterfront?. Whoever saw it and thought that it was about abusive workers? representatives missed the boat.
- In 1955 Arthur Miller more or less answered Kazan with ?A View from the Bridge?. Again, if one thought that the play was about immigrants, he missed the boat.
The Bible is full of parables and only the priests and the maniacally anti-priests can fail to see that it must be read as a collection of parables, rules that put a limit to the ferocity of men, and stories that demonstrate how easy it is for men to use religion to present their cruelty of as the will of God. E.g.,
- Adam and Eve have no notion of good and evil until they eat the forbidden fruit, become God-like, and are expelled from Paradise. Is it not clear that the text describes the passage from childhood to adulthood? Very young children are the embodiment of "I want it, I must have it" ?. Eventually they acquire the notion of right and wrong and become adults.
- When God tells Adam "