Jerry Falwell Jr. Blames Wife For Emerging Cuckold Sex Scandal
Why am I not surprised?
The whole story of Adam and Eve always struck me as inherently sexist. The way the Bible tells it, one can only logically conclude that Adam threw his wife under the bus, and nobody — not even God — cared to correct him.
According to Genesis, God told Adam to never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and long before Eve was ever in the garden. The Serpent tells Eve that she really ought to eat from that tree, and she takes a bite of the fruit. She gives some to her husband, who was apparently with her the whole damn time, and then Adam shirks culpability when God questions him about what he’s done.
As in, “Hey, it’s not my fault. The woman you gave me did this to me.”
Fucking serious?
Growing up in an evangelical bubble meant I was witness to a whole lot of this nonsense. As it turns out, there are lots of unbelievably sexist stories in the Bible and among Christians at large.
Another favorite is Queen Vashti, who was banished by her drunk husband, King Ahasuerus when she refused to dance — presumably naked — on command for him and his friends. Vashti is, of course, replaced by a submissive yet crafty Esther, who wins the king’s beauty pageant and goes on…
