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An interesting aspect of the story of the Garden of Eden has to do with the snake. The snake was “crafty” enough to lie to Eve about the fact that if she ate the apple, she wouldn’t die. That’s where the expression “you lying snake” comes from. But in one respect, the snake didn’t lie. The snake told Eve if she ate of the forbidden fruit, “your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). That part is true.
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Glen Stassen, ed., Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for Ethics of Peace and War (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2008).
Henry R. Luce, “The American Century” reprinted in The Ambiguous Legacy, ed. M. J. Hogan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Stanley Karnow, Viet Nam: A History (New York: Viking Press, 1983), p. 336.
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Thistlethwaite, S.B. (2010). The Practice of Goodness. In: Dreaming of Eden. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113473_7
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