and they can cook up a nice lamb shank to break up the monotony.
Well, no. That’s not until Noah is issued permission to eat meat after the Flood.
because the Garden of Eden is one of the most depressing ‘paradises’ ever devised
It’s not that depressing. It’s just a park. The depressing part is that God gets angry and says, “Oh, you don’t want to spend 100% of all your existence in this park for all eternity with literally nothing else? FUCK YOU AND LITERALLY DIE.” A good God would have allowed much larger portions of possible life-space to be explored with fewer or even no penalties.
Eden is indeed more interesting for having the Apple, but damnation is so totally uninteresting that religious people had to go and invent Redemption, which is the simpering and undignified version of having your cake and eating it too.
Well, no. That’s not until Noah is issued permission to eat meat after the Flood.
It’s not that depressing. It’s just a park. The depressing part is that God gets angry and says, “Oh, you don’t want to spend 100% of all your existence in this park for all eternity with literally nothing else? FUCK YOU AND LITERALLY DIE.” A good God would have allowed much larger portions of possible life-space to be explored with fewer or even no penalties.
Eden is indeed more interesting for having the Apple, but damnation is so totally uninteresting that religious people had to go and invent Redemption, which is the simpering and undignified version of having your cake and eating it too.