From morbius@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu Thu Jul  6 15:42:01 EDT 1995
Article: 191896 of alt.atheism
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From: morbius@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (Edouard Morbius)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Incest in the bible?
Date: 5 Jul 1995 18:54:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

Ade The Shade <adrian@abarnett.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Tim Patterson (patterso@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu) spake thus:
>: If Adam and Eve were the first people created by God, and we're
>: all descended from them, then there must have been a lot of
>: incest going on at some point mustn't there?
>
>It seems God likes incest. Once there were too many people,
>he Flooded the world, leaving Noah and his family to start
>in-breeding all over again...

All the important characters in the bible happily indulged in incest.  
Abraham was married to his half sister Sarah.  Ol' Abe must have liked it 
a lot, because he made his servant (Eliezar?) swear on his 'nads that he 
(the servant) would find a wife for Abe's son Isaac from among Abe's 
relatives.  The servant found a cousin, Rebecca, for Isaac to marry.  
Isaac's son Jacob married two of his cousins, Leah and Rachel. Lot's daughters
got their Father drunk and had their way with him (without his knowledge 
8^}).  On this family "tree", the branches curve back and rejoin!


Edouard Morbius