According to the Bible, Adam was inflicted with the blood, sweat and tears of labor and Eve with the "pains of childbirth" because of that darn snake in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve ended up in a kind of Purgatory called the Land of Nod (East of Eden) and there we’ve all sweated and toiled, suffered through birth pains and somehow endured the frequent torture of child-rearing… terrible, isn’t it? God’s a taskmaster, we know that, but isn’t such a set of sentences cruel and unusual punishment for simply wanting to learn from the "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil" and educate ourselves?

The postmoderns certainly think so! They’re the best educated of us, as you probably know. They out-debate all the reactionary curmudgeons of yore, talent hunt until they find a suitable prospect like former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Canada has been an impressively fertile breeding ground for postmodern genius of all kinds. One just died recently: John Kenneth Galbraith, who was firmly convinced that government should relieve the human race of the awful pains of capitalism – much in the same way that the French RU486 abortion pill relieves women of the agony of childbirth. Galbraith was born a Canadian. With dual citizenship, though, he was also an adviser to FDR, JFK and LBJ. Galbraith played a key role in giving us the unaffordable Great Society program. With his "astringent wit and elegant iconoclasm," as the Boston Globe describes him, Galbraith stood "for a socially pain-free, decently egalitarian society," so long as someone else paid for it.

Well, the postmoderns have certainly packed in the "tree of knowledge." There’s no doubt about that. They all carry graduate degrees, Rhodes Scholarships and Nobel Prizes. They received all the knowledge. However, there’s that little matter of "good and evil," heroes and villains… Such distinctions seem to have escaped them entirely… or they’ve reconciled them. Karl Marx’s works teach us that everything can be synthesized – even good and evil.

Abortion passed in the United States by a very postmodern Supreme Court, has had remarkable effects on crime, according to one economist. A wunderkind of finance, Steven D. Levitt, claims that the crime rate in the United States dropped radically within the last few years, because those babies of the "lower classes," who would have been born about 25 years ago and committed crimes by now, were aborted after Roe v. Wade. I have no doubt that’s true… but Levitt is still sanctioning mass murder.

Yes, that ole snake of Eden has been living in the Land of Nod for quite some time. Set up in almost all the universities and colleges of the world, the salesmen for the Tree of Knowledge have our purgatorial existence being swiftly renovated back into Eden itself, a virtual postmodern Paradise! With cradle-to-grave governments, men are free from hard labor. With abortion, women are having a whale of a time proving that "women’s rights are human rights" and to hell with the rights of the fetus!

I have a hunch the snake hissed in Eve’s ear that she could rule Eden, put her husband Adam on his knees and make him beg for almost anything. Well, with abortion on demand, women packing the courts as judges, all penal codes favoring women, and the odds favoring a female supremacist, Hillary Clinton, being elected President in 2008, the snake wins!

With postmodern appeasers in the universities and the Fourth Estate and postmodern Christians in high office, when will this factory for inhumanity end? Abortion is inhumane. Murder cannot possibly be an acceptable solution to the problems of life.

"We protect those who cannot protect themselves." That’s the logo of a Canadian fire department. It’s also the litmus test for any civilization. Postmodern inhumanity cannot help but become the antithesis of civilization.

Perhaps that was the Creator’s plan all along, giving Man more than enough snake to hang himself with. Somehow he knew that the children of Adam and Eve, after Cain slew Abel, would let the serpentine intellects lead them even further into proving that knowledge overcomes faith. Man’s mind can actually destroy the concept of God and all the curses meted out to humanity because of the "tree of knowledge."

Christ has a most remarkable parable of a man whose house is troubled by seven evil spirits. The man of the house stands up and says he’s going to "clean up the house." Well, he drives out the evil spirits and, guess what? Those seven evil spirits go off, find seven more, come back and the man and his household end up worse off than they were before.

So what does it behove a man to win a Nobel Prize and have his name blackened unto eternity by future generations?

If the bad guys win, it will be Purgatory lost, Nod gone nodding and Hell will be here on Earth indeed. Ironic, isn't it?