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Genesis 3 : Don't Engage

Woman has easily become the scapegoat in the story for being enticed and telling Man what to do. I wonder if it was all written just for telling women to be submissive. It is really hard not to take it either completely literally or dismissing it as patriarchy. What I understand is people back then were looking for ways and writing out a story to explain death and hardship. Some of the questions result in this story could be, "Why humans have to die?", "Why can't we live forever?", "Why do we have to work so hard to fill our belly?, "Why we were born naked but have to put on clothes...,etc It seems to be a trend to blame women as the sources of bad things in many if not all cultures. There are bad words created associating with women. It is purely patriarchy and misogyny. People even blamed "snakes" as evil creatures. They made "snake" the evil character just because they looked quirky and different and some people were pro