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Dear Woman: I know you don’t exactly believe in God…
Dear Man: No, wait. God sounds like a great idea. It’s the “believe” part that throws me.
Dear Woman: What do you mean?
Dear Man: Let me see if I can explain. I believed in Santa Claus. I believed in Prince Charming. I believed in the American dream. I believed in the house with the white picket fence. It took a lot of energy to believe in those things, and the payoff was … well, shall we say, disappointing.
Dear Woman: Well, maybe I shouldn’t bring this up.
Dear Man: No–my heart isn’t set in stone. Let me hear what you have to say.
Dear Woman: It’s the story of Adam and Eve.
Dear Man: Oh, you mean with the talking snake?
Dear Woman: Yeah–let’s just put the talking snake to the side right now. I’m referring to the story line.
Dear Man: Okay. The story. Gotcha.
Dear Woman: Do you realize that the Good Book says that God considered the man and the woman together as a unit, in cooperation, to be Adam?
Dear Man: No, I didn’t. Really?
Dear Woman: Yes–they were not only created as equals, but also as what I might call “mutuals.”
Dear Man: Mutuals. I kind of like that. What do you mean?
Dear Woman: Mutually independent. Mutually valuable to each other. And mutually capable.
Dear Man: Do you really believe that?
Dear Woman: Yes. So I believe the true evil in the world is when we “split the Adam.”
Dear Man: You mean the atomic bomb?
Dear Woman: No, not a-t-o-m. A-d-a-m. Whenever we insist that men and women are so drastically different from one another that peaceful coexistence can only be considered as the premise for a farce. So evil is when the Adam–the mutual man and woman, living peaceably together–is split by fear, religion, tradition or domination.
Dear Man: So how did this happen in Eden?
Dear Woman: Well, I don’t exactly know the moment it happened, but somewhere along the line, the man and the woman stopped talking together–to the extent that Eve felt that her questions would be rejected and not understood by Adam. So she goes off to investigate the unknown without her “mutual.” She does this because apparently she feels cheated, and I think she feels cheated because even though God viewed them as mutuals, Adam was beginning to desire domination.
Dear Man: How do you think he did that?
Dear Woman: My opinion? By trying to act smarter. Always putting himself in the role of the instructor. I’m sure he did it politely or even with some chivalry. But it was passed along to Eve that she was the lesser of the pair.
Dear Man: Keep going. This is fascinating.
Dear Woman: And in the process, I think Adam gave Eve the impression that he found her sexually interesting, so to a certain degree, she was afraid of becoming unattractive, or nervous about getting older.
Dear Man: Of course, this is all your conjecture.
Dear Woman: Hell, yeah. I mean, my plotline does fit with the story, and makes sense with the battle going on with the genders today. But here’s the truth–what constituted evil in Eden is the same thing that stirs it up today. Splitting the Adam. There would not have been any temptation for Adam and Eve if they had maintained their mutual beauty. But because Eve felt misunderstood and cheated, like she wasn’t as smart, and that she needed to avoid growing old, she went to the source of knowledge and got the evil with the good.
Dear Man: Very interesting. Of course, you’d have to believe in the story to follow your theory.
Dear Woman: I suppose.
Dear Man: So let me ask you this. What do you get out of that?
Dear Woman: All domination is insecurity trying to hide behind the plot to control. If you’re afraid to be a mutual, you will always try to be the most important.
Dear Man: Splitting the Adam, huh?
Dear Woman: Yes. It created an explosion of insincerity, inequality and insufferable condescending attitudes that still radiate in our world today.
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