18 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

  1. Maybe Hili can answer this: why did God have to ask Cain what happened to his brother? Only 4 people on the whole earth and already the omnipresent idiot is without a clue as to their whereabouts.

    1. Earlier in his story he managed to lose Adam and Eve when they were restricted to the garden of eden. Clearly his omniscient omnipresence was on the blink in his early versions, the upgrade to the God 2.0 (Christian) or God 3.0 (Muslim) versions supposedly fixed these bugs.

      1. God 2.0 (Christian) or God 3.0 (Muslim)

        Any upgrade to a X.0 version is asking for the trouble you’re going to get.
        which reminds me – I must see if my mate Les has any plans to update “Genesis 2.0“.

  2. Abel was the shepherd and Cain raised crops (carrots, etc.).
    The notion of sacrifice was big way back then, and Abel’s offering of roasted lamb was very pleasing to Yahweh. Cain was a distant second giving only a plate of vegetables, and so was cursed. I think that’s kind of unfair.

      1. Also, vegetarians are:

        Cereal killers
        Herbicidal maniacs

        Carrots are still alive when they are eaten raw or boiled. Maybe thats why God refused the vegetable sacrifice – He didn’t want to see them suffer as they were burned alive.

    2. I remember thinking “That’s unfair!” too when I first heard that story. Both guys giving their best and one of them getting rejected.

      @Grania Will that make a christian vegetatian’s head explode? 😉

        1. Also shows that YHWH has no culinary sense whatsoever. What’s better: a steak…or a rich beef stew? And can’t make stew without carrots….

          b&

          1. Maybe he hadn’t gotten over the apple incident. We all know that one went down like a leaky ship in a typhoon.

          2. Yeah…you’d want to add the apples at the very end, or else they’ll just disintegrate into the stew — and then what’s the point?

            b&

      2. My RE teacher at school claimed that Cain’s offer was rejected because it was “fruit of the ground” and God had cursed the ground when he kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden. Basically, Cain’s offer was rejected because of something God did.

    3. As a really young kid I thought it was mean to reject the veges when he’d done his best, and never could understand it. Of course, Yahweh knew he was going to subject his people to the vegetarian Hitler in a few thousand years time, so perhaps it was a prophecy and a warning.

      That boxer who bites cites his new vegetarianism as evidence he’s changed too – not sure of the connection myself.

    4. It was the age-old fight of pastoralists against farmers, still happening in places in East Africa.

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