The problem of Cain and Able

[athelstanent]

I was reading "Hegira" by Greg Bear. A good early novel by a great writer. As an aside he mentioned Cain and Able in the book. Then it hit me. God favored one sacrifice over another. I was taught it was not the sacrifice but how one did it. Regardless it shows that god shows favor. This seems to justify the "holier than thou" attitude that helped to push me away from any organized religion.

Why couldn't of god shown Cain how he wanted sacrifice? Did god want Able murdered? It just seems like a bad way to run things.

Comments

[strider-orion.livejournal.com]

two problems,

1) That's the opposite side of the universe for me.

2) My wife doesn't share the same views about friendly yiff :P

That's one reason for the "I wish" bit XD

[athelstan.livejournal.com]

Ah well! I respect couples and their decisions about having a closed relationship. Open and closed relationships have the same number of difficulties, just different ones.

I leave it at that unless you want to talk about relationship dynamics. }:-)