Talking Snakes

Recently I have been amazed at the health care debate that has been occuring in our country. I am appalled at the wild claims like 'death panels' that so many quickly believe and so vehemently speak out against. It is both sad and comical to see people ardently and feverishly criticize items that are not true or based loosely on fact. I am so tired of hearing about the exaggerated claims about socialism. I sometimes puzzle how people can be so naive. However, while considering this I have reflected on days past when I was an evangelical Christian. I remember reading the story of the garden of Eden in Genesis 3 and hardly stopping on the fact that Eve dialogued with a snake. How odd that we as people can so easily accept things that in any other context would be laughable. Part of me wants to chuckle now at the absurdity of the story but I humbly remember, "oh, yeah I used to believe that was true too." Perhaps naivity and gullibility are both native weaknesses for our species.