Genesis 2

Cain Kills Abel
(Or, Why So Much Incest?)***

   "It's a hard life and no one's to blame
   When God's not on the morning train
   If Cain don't kill Abel, Abel kills Cain
   And tears now shed are shed in vain
   For Kennedy and Jesse James
   And Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain"
         - Dan Bern.

                           "Cain rose up against Abel his brother, & slew him."

So yeah, but I read it over & it's really not worth reading. 
   Just, like, if you're ever on Jeopardy! remember: Cain killed Abel, not the other way around.
I've always had trouble remembering.
   Also if you're on Jeopardy! I guess you have to remember that Cain says afterward:

                           "Am I my brother's keeper?"

So that's where we got that phrase from.
   Skip, skip, skip...Until we get to another Scooby Doo moment: 

                           "Cain knew his wife; & she conceived..."

Although we shouldn't get too shocked by the implication of incest just yet. 
   From what I remember, later on in this book, the incest will be more explicit.

                            "Adam lived nine hundred & thirty years."

Sure, sure.
   Cool, cool, cool.
But that's nothing:

                           "All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty 
                            & nine years."

Skip, skip, skip, to chapter six.
   Which might be a good place to end today's lesson. 
I'm beginning to think the book of Genesis should be renamed simply: "WTF?!"

                           "& it came to pass, when men began to multiply 
                            on the face of the earth, & daughters were born unto them,
                            that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
                            & they took them wives of all which they chose."

Also: 

                           "There were giants in the earth in those days;
                            & also after that, when the sons of God came in unto
                            the daughters of men, & they bare children to them,
                            the same became mighty men which were of old, 
                            men of renown."



***Message to Christians: The author of this blog is not anti-Christian, nor is he anti-Christianity. In fact, he is quite a fan of Jesus Christ & what he was about. In fact, he tries to live his life like Jesus said to live. However, the author of this blog has a most serious objection to the way in which organized followers of Jesus Christ have behaved over the centuries. 

For one example of a book better than the Bible at explaining how to live like Jesus, see Be Here Now, by Ram Dass.