Why did god let the devil serpent into the garden? [Spirituality & Religion]

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Straylight · 31-35, F

I think it was like a parable rejecting the old religions, which tended to be totemic and matriarchal.

Pikachu

@Straylight

How do you mean?

Straylight · 31-35, F

@Pikachu By making the serpent the evil tempter, it rejects shamanism and then rejects the matriarchal aspect by having Eve be tempted by the serpent of the old ways.

Pikachu

@Straylight

Ah i see