Eve, oh Eve… You Sexy Beast, You!
I spent my weekend devouring pages of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown – a very intriguing book that fascinated and horrified me at the same time I almost felt sorry I’ve been reading it.
There was so much hype accumulating around the facts and theories behind the book but I never really thought it would be about Christianity. I have to admit that most of the information in it are pretty convincing, especially since the author was confident enough to state this beforehand. It makes me feel rather like the doubting Thomas because all through reading it, questions start to form in my minds and I start to wonder whether the whole Christian religion is based on man-made creation that had the sole purpose to demean women.
The feminist in me couldn’t help feeling flattered over the whole ‘Divine Feminine’ theory because for all we bloody know, women have always been below men and it had taken us years and years of struggle and we are still not getting the rights we so rightly deserve.
The questions that stays on my mind is always the same:” How did it all happen? Was it really Eve’s fault that women had to undergo so much pain and shame just because they are women? After six thousand years of suffering and being treated and perceived as the lower gender, isn’t it about time to stop punishing them for the crimes they didn’t even commit in the first place? And furthermore, did Eve really exist or was she just man-made as a scapegoat to all the sins committed in the world?”
Eve was a female, and she tempted Adam to eat the apple, and because a female is known to be such a good temptress, she was therefore a sexual evil being.
Eve = female temptress = sexual evil being
So women, being the descendant of Eve = sexual evil beings
I remember my first encounter with the Bible was anything but joyful. Like any other normal Bible beginner, I started on Genesis and even though I was too young to know the meaning of the whole story, I couldn’t help thinking, “Why did Eve has to be the one who committed the first sin? That’s not right. There are more males doing bad things in the world.” I objected to this fact simply because I was a girl and I felt that being one meant being the same like Eve. I hadn’t done anything wrong but I felt like I was wronged already, simply for being the descendant of Eve and simply for being a girl.
I’m not saying that everything about the Bible is bad, though. I mean I love Jesus – that’s one thing that is certain. But sometimes the Bible is really doing my head in it’s just far more easier to believe in God alone and to try to love another as Jesus had taught as all to do. I do believe that Jesus was not sexist and he never taught men to be sexist.
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I thought you are talking about my friend eve here, hehehehe
http://callmeeve.wordpress.com. She is another bithcy that i love in this blogoshphere..
of course you are counted to therr, hehehe… love you (jadi kolor ungu gue ama ijo yg ketinggalan yahhh, hahaha)
Eh, ya ampyun… ada yang ngomongin eykeh. Jadi berasa GR *tersipu malu*. Aseli nih lagi blog jumping dengan gaya paling narsis sedunia. Googling my own nick name. hahahaha sampelah saya ke sini. *pelok pelok kalian berdua*
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En btw, gue sempet berdebat sama eru http://azureru.com ttg siapa yg paling bersalah dalam cerita adam+eve+ular di atas. Dan menurut saya, siapapun yg salah, jelas Adam yg paling bodo. Hahaha…
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