photo credit: Eustaquio Santimano I think often of Adam and Eve. I consider myself a Christian, though not in the traditional sense of the word. Don’t believe in the scriptures literally, and believe that the concept of sin isn’t a paternalistic damnation, but a caution from our Creator of certain actions whose consequences are the murder of our own souls. A mainstay of my belief and religious philosophy is that I believe that anything not prescribed as the word of God is left to interpretation, and may be out of the context of the time period it is written (outside the first five books of the Bible, which the Bible code makes it hard to believe are not of some significance). I also believe that it’s possible but not probable that man mis-translated words given to him divinely, for a purpose only our Creator would know. Hell. Maybe He/She/Cylon enjoys double entendres. So when I read the story of Eve and examine the way women are referenced in the Bible, it’s hard for me to believe that a divine being, intelligent enough to create us, a living machine whose day to day functions are independent of itself, would create womankind to be inherently flawed and evil. The very word “evil” is a reference to Eve. And I think that we received her whole story out of context, at best, incompletely. It is well known that the story of Adam and Eve was modeled after the Egyptian story of creation. (I

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