How Good Do We Have To Be Meaning

The act of Adam and Eve was not original sin, but in truth, first blessing. You should thank them from the bottom of your hearts. For in being the first to make a "wrong choice" Adam and Eve produced the possibility of making any choice at all. In your mythology you have made Eve the bad one, the temptress who ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and coyly invited Adam to join her. This mythological setup has allowed you to make woman man's downfall ever since. Resulting in all manner of warped realities. Not to mention distorted sexual views and confusions, "How can you feel so good about something so bad?"

I had a HUGE epiphany today. A "light bulb" moment of such wattage, it could light up the entire city of San Jose! I heard the above quote as I was listening to my audio book on my morning walk yesterday. I remember when I read How Good Do We Have to Be by Harold Kushner many years ago, that he was the first and only person I have ever experienced saying that Eve has been wrongly maligned. She was not man's downfall, but the catalyst to human evolution. The eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge has been mislabeled, The Fall of Man or Original Sin, when in fact it was the moment when humans evolved and rose above the rest of the animal kingdom. No longer were we driven by mere instincts, as most animals are, but it was in that moment we became AWARE. We became CONSCIOUS.
Yet, as a result of characterizing Eve as the instigator, the ringleader, the troublemaker, the inciter, women have been blamed rather than uplifted. This would explain why throughout so much of history, women have been treated as second-class citizens. In many parts of the world today they are still treated