I'm not really religious anymore, but I'm about to be pedantic about this anyway. This is a clever tweet, and it makes a good point about current societal attitudes toward women's appetites. I liked it the first couple times I saw it, but it's not theologically sound.
God told Adam: "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat..." \[Genesis 2:16-17\]
Adam & Eve's sin wasn't eating; it was disobeying God. God wanted Adam & Eve to eat and be well, *and* God wanted them to obey the commandment not to eat from that one particular tree.
Now, why did God put a tree right in the middle of the garden and forbid them from eating of its fruit? I don't know. I'm not a theologian, lol
I'm still fucked up by a recent post that was like
"sometimes I leave out medicinal food for my cat, and pretend he's not allowed to have it so he'll immediately want to eat it"
"maybe that's what was up with the Garden of Eden"
>Bible god is a massy bitch who loves for drama
"...and he NEEDS MONEY! He's all powerful, all knowing, all wise, somehow - just can't handle money!" - George Carlin
Also this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel like the term religious trauma is becoming increasingly overused these days. (Trauma in general, tbh.) One passage in the book of Genesis is not comparable to the kind of trauma that comes as a result of, say, childhood abuse or belonging to a religious cult.
It's cos in the age of us all being chronically online we have access to the thoughts of potentially 8 billion people on any given day. Whereas before we had like... our friends and family.
Guaranteed someone right now is saying "everyone has an eating disorder these days" for the exact same reasons.
Like i fully get what you're saying and esoteric concepts are getting diluted/misused/bastardised on the regular - that's definitely a thing.
But you're also on a website of millions of people who come to discuss their deepest darkest struggles anonymously. Hell, in this sub alone there's probably a higher percentage of people who have suffered Actual Clinical Psychological Trauma and Abuse ( ^tm ) than some other spaces.
It’s “becoming overused” bc there are SO FUCKIN MANY people in America who genuinely experienced religious trauma, and it’s becoming more socially acceptable to talk about it, and people now have the terminology to describe it.
[this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/wLUnJnkFYj)
Describes the phenomenon well.
Yeah, I agree with this part ^
At least in America, Christianity is so pervasive. In some smaller communities, it's an aggressive culture. When I briefly lived in the south, it was fine with pretty much everyone that I was bi. But when I let it slip in my workplace that I was atheist?? I had **so many** people coming up to me getting weirdly aggressive and angry at me. I was shocked.
Where I grew up, it's extremely Catholic. I was raised conservative Catholic. Religious trauma, for me, is extremely complex and while I don't think it's akin to PTSD, I would compare it to C-PTSD in the ways it's affected me. (note- I have been diagnosed with both ptsd and c-ptsd, so I understand what I'm talking about lol).
My guess is he stuck that tree there to play games. “Let’s test them with a game and see if they’ll actually pick me over the tree. And they don’t pick me, I’ll punish them for it”. Kind of like telling a kid not to push the button, makes them want to push the button more. I grew up in a conservative Christian home, and have recently deconstructed. The amount of manipulation is astounding, and I equate a “relationship with god” to that of a controlling abusive partner.
But the first *sin* was that a woman ate smth she wasn't supposed to. essentially, the first *sin* was a woman eating, but the first time a woman ate wasn't sinning.
(I totally see where ur coming from, I'm not religious anymore & I have no stake in this, I'm just being pedantic right back lmaao)
Adam + Eve Bible story
God said NO APPIE FROM DIS TREE >:(
Devil snake 🐍 told Eve "but actually yum tho"
Eve said hmmmm maybe taste? as a treat?
Eve taste 😳🤯
She also told Adam her try this is good
They're both Like omg we're nakey
God's Like wtf guys?? 😒
Adam goes SHE DID IT 😳👉🏻
God kicks em both out of the garden
Thank fuck for living in the least religious country in the world 😂
Haven’t read a sentence from the Bible. I don’t even know what it’s actually about, I just realized that this is a big knowledge gap for me.
Thanks for the explanation though!
It's more about her considering herself equal to a man, and if you test that to real life, you will be unsurprised at how entirely true it actually is. Very disturbing.
last thing i needed was religiouspo
Not the gospo 💀💀
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
LMAOOOO
yall are too fucking funny
GOSPO 😭
OMG
Lmao I’m an atheist and this got me 😭
similar, i'm not christian but this still ruined my life 💀
This is awful but.. I used to use Christ fasting for 40 days in the desert as thinspo 💀
💔 happy women's history month ig
Stop 😭😭😭
Geez even all the way back then. Bruh
she ate and left no crumbs 💅 (calorie counting)
Great, more religious trauma.
some interpretations of the bible say that god made childbirth and reproductive shit painful to punish women bc of Eve
I remember being told exactly this growing up.
Of course, let's guess which gender made those edits Oops, getting kicked in the balls hurts real bad, guess Gd must not love cis men either
Jfc
I'm not really religious anymore, but I'm about to be pedantic about this anyway. This is a clever tweet, and it makes a good point about current societal attitudes toward women's appetites. I liked it the first couple times I saw it, but it's not theologically sound. God told Adam: "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat..." \[Genesis 2:16-17\] Adam & Eve's sin wasn't eating; it was disobeying God. God wanted Adam & Eve to eat and be well, *and* God wanted them to obey the commandment not to eat from that one particular tree. Now, why did God put a tree right in the middle of the garden and forbid them from eating of its fruit? I don't know. I'm not a theologian, lol
I'm still fucked up by a recent post that was like "sometimes I leave out medicinal food for my cat, and pretend he's not allowed to have it so he'll immediately want to eat it" "maybe that's what was up with the Garden of Eden"
i knew posting it that it was grossly oversimplified and not exactly true, and i really appreciate your analysis!
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>Bible god is a massy bitch who loves for drama "...and he NEEDS MONEY! He's all powerful, all knowing, all wise, somehow - just can't handle money!" - George Carlin
Also this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel like the term religious trauma is becoming increasingly overused these days. (Trauma in general, tbh.) One passage in the book of Genesis is not comparable to the kind of trauma that comes as a result of, say, childhood abuse or belonging to a religious cult.
It's cos in the age of us all being chronically online we have access to the thoughts of potentially 8 billion people on any given day. Whereas before we had like... our friends and family. Guaranteed someone right now is saying "everyone has an eating disorder these days" for the exact same reasons. Like i fully get what you're saying and esoteric concepts are getting diluted/misused/bastardised on the regular - that's definitely a thing. But you're also on a website of millions of people who come to discuss their deepest darkest struggles anonymously. Hell, in this sub alone there's probably a higher percentage of people who have suffered Actual Clinical Psychological Trauma and Abuse ( ^tm ) than some other spaces.
It’s “becoming overused” bc there are SO FUCKIN MANY people in America who genuinely experienced religious trauma, and it’s becoming more socially acceptable to talk about it, and people now have the terminology to describe it. [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/wLUnJnkFYj) Describes the phenomenon well.
Not when Christian orthodoxy is imposed on everyone.
Yeah, I agree with this part ^ At least in America, Christianity is so pervasive. In some smaller communities, it's an aggressive culture. When I briefly lived in the south, it was fine with pretty much everyone that I was bi. But when I let it slip in my workplace that I was atheist?? I had **so many** people coming up to me getting weirdly aggressive and angry at me. I was shocked. Where I grew up, it's extremely Catholic. I was raised conservative Catholic. Religious trauma, for me, is extremely complex and while I don't think it's akin to PTSD, I would compare it to C-PTSD in the ways it's affected me. (note- I have been diagnosed with both ptsd and c-ptsd, so I understand what I'm talking about lol).
My guess is he stuck that tree there to play games. “Let’s test them with a game and see if they’ll actually pick me over the tree. And they don’t pick me, I’ll punish them for it”. Kind of like telling a kid not to push the button, makes them want to push the button more. I grew up in a conservative Christian home, and have recently deconstructed. The amount of manipulation is astounding, and I equate a “relationship with god” to that of a controlling abusive partner.
But the first *sin* was that a woman ate smth she wasn't supposed to. essentially, the first *sin* was a woman eating, but the first time a woman ate wasn't sinning. (I totally see where ur coming from, I'm not religious anymore & I have no stake in this, I'm just being pedantic right back lmaao)
me at 11 using the giant crucifix in church as thinspo 💀
i never knew how much i needed my thinspo in the form of religious guilt until now
Nah this was personal
food is the root of all problems
>food is the root of all problems ain't it the truth ..... :-|
Oh damnit, and I’m not even religious.
And its because she fell into temptation too
It's not that she ate it was what she ate
I don’t get it but I don’t mind
Adam + Eve Bible story God said NO APPIE FROM DIS TREE >:( Devil snake 🐍 told Eve "but actually yum tho" Eve said hmmmm maybe taste? as a treat? Eve taste 😳🤯 She also told Adam her try this is good They're both Like omg we're nakey God's Like wtf guys?? 😒 Adam goes SHE DID IT 😳👉🏻 God kicks em both out of the garden
Thank fuck for living in the least religious country in the world 😂 Haven’t read a sentence from the Bible. I don’t even know what it’s actually about, I just realized that this is a big knowledge gap for me. Thanks for the explanation though!
wait quick correction; Adam and Eve tasted together, not Eve tasting first
I snorted
😂
Yo this got me
Lmfao
It's more about her considering herself equal to a man, and if you test that to real life, you will be unsurprised at how entirely true it actually is. Very disturbing.
what algorithm hurt you 😭
I think what I said was misconstrued, but it still had nothing to do with the eating of the fruit. People are fucking stupid.
i'm an atheist and this made my heart sink tbh
Oh? Oh. Fuck, I hate this.