After regaining my senses I realized that what hit me, after reading Stuart GortÆs "Not kidding", was the weight of the Bible as a book and not its content. The passages quoted by him are full of truisms. One does not have to be a bible scholar, nor have an access to divine wisdom, to know that one cannot eat what one does not have, and that to have food one has to put out effort to get it. There is no great philosophy in it. The passages quoted by him said: "in toil you shall EAT of it (i.e. of the ground)," and "by the sweat of your face shall you EAT bread." No one disagrees with it. This is exactly what I said. Eating for the most part consists of obtaining food, i.e. tilling the land, sowing, reaping, fishing, hunting, and trudging to the supermarket . God could not have used such words as: "supermarket," or "prepaid", because in his times no one would have understood what he was saying. And he was obviously not referring to the work for Imperial Oil or General Motors.
The entire animal kingdom partakes of the same wisdom. When a lion gets hungry he knows that he has to get himself some food. So, he goes on a hunt, lies in wait for a zebra to come by, and makes a kill. Then he drags the carcass to a safe place to dismember it. It isnÆt an easy task, as we know from witnessing it many times on the National Geographic. We can only imagine what his reaction would be, if prior to going on a hunt he was asked to deliver a heavy load some distance away to earn the privilege.
From this observation we can deduct that the creative act consists of two inseparable aspects: a lion and the food necessary for his sustenance and within easy reach. If there were no food pool for the lion to dip into "in a communist-like fashion," regardless of his input, then there would be no lions on earth, and we would not even know that a lion was ever created.
Were I the creator, I would consider putting artificial obstacles between my creatures, humans not excluding, and the food necessary for their survival, as a violation of my will, tantamount to killing, and as such an unpardonable sin!
Walter Prytulak
