Well the Greek gods do a lot of terrible things, they're not the best role models.
Yo can you imagine a Greek Sunday School, though? "Don't you ever get in a competition with Athena or she will RUIN YOUR LIFE."
Anguishing over incest is for peasantry. Nobility and royalty have had no problem keeping things close, in both the East and the West.
Yeah but Rich and Boss as Abraham was, he wasn't exactly royalty, was he?
I don't think Adam and Eve's children intermarried. It's pretty clear from Genesis that by the time they were cast out of Paradise, there were already other humans populating the world. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense that after Cain kills Abel, he is marked so that any man will know that he is a killer.
Noah is a more interesting case because the floor was supposed to cleanse the entire world, and there isn't really much post-flood details with regards to the activities of the family right after. It would be reasonable to think that the flood wiped out an entire region though, and that there were eventually other settlers in the area.
Lot's daughters were straight nasty not just because of the incest, but because of the idea that they felt that it was better to get their dad drunk and get impregnated by him that way, rather than try looking for a normal relationship to start a family later. And they were both virgins to boot. It's just strange on multiple levels and pretty disturbing all round.
I mean, it's possible there were other people, or Adam and Eve just had a bunch of kids by the time Cain kills Abel, and that's why he's marked, so other children of Adam will know. Nobody really bothers to write that stuff down, though.
I think in the case of Lot's daughters, though, they get pregnant by him after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they thought like, the world was over or something. I don't remember.
Aren't those the stories where God was pretty much an asshole before Jesus was born?
Yeah, I bet its fun.
Hey man, being wild and crazy before you have a kid is a normal.
