Marlo wrote:

> So on a list I'm on with lots of great people, some of whom are boneheaded,
> someone called for the return of "traditional" families -- you know, where
> the husband works and the wife stays home with the kids, stuff like that.
>
> I said it was shortsighted and ignored millennia of other traditions to call
> the nuclear family "traditional" and another woman said that Adam and Eve
> sure looked plenty traditional to her, minus a closet full of clothes. My
> response:
>
> Wow. Really? Let's see...
>
> 1) They raised a murderer
> 2) Their kids all practiced incest
> 3) Neither of them worked, either in or outside of the home
>
> (Not to mention, and this is one you can skip if you want, THEY'RE
> FICTIONAL!)

And what does this have to do with apples. Eve did not eat an apple. She ate the
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.