Adam, Iblis and Lilith
“So, let me get this right... We’re a patriarchy, with me as the omniscient head, and we didn’t see this coming?”
“No, Lord.”
“Wasn’t Paul in charge of this?”
“Actually Lord, it was Irenaeus of Smyrna. You’re correct, it was in the Pauline tradition. But he really laid down the notion of Original Sin. You remember the Garden story? Eve, the Snake and the Apple.”
“Three words... Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent.”
“Yes, Lord, you remember. Please. Humor me?”
“Go on, Gabe.”
“We... Ahem... You inspired Irenaeus to take up the misogynistic and anti-heretical position that woman was the problem. The whole notion of females as the originator of sin was the apologetic position to articulate what generational sin was. In particular, to refute the poets and dramatists who propagate the trope ‘the sins of the father.’”
“Right, Bill’s fairy with the ‘what fools these mortals be’ and what not. But why isn’t it working?”
“It doesn’t seem to ring true to many. Women struggle with what they perceive as a vilification campaign. The Vatican’s cover up of Pope Joan, the Magdalene marrying Jesus, and the whole Lilith debacle. The ones who think and exercise their free will just don’t believe us.”
“Oh, that bitch. She just wasn’t happy with missionary only. Thinking about her own pleasure. Please.”
“Yes, Lord. But had she not seduced Adam, he would still run around, point at things and name them till today. The species would have never propagated if she didn’t teach him about the sensual arts of the body.”
“Eve and almost all their daughters and sisters have that independent streak.”
“Again Lord. As you likely know, had we not created Eve in Lilith’s image, she never would have taken the bite of the apple. Again, two humans in the garden are not an evolving creation. It’s a static work of art.”
“True. The real first sin was when your brother Iblis refused to bow down to Adam.”
“Yes Lord. It always was the sins of the father.”
