Bible Trivia! Why did Cain kill Abel?

[JVS]

Poll question: Bible Trivia! Why did Cain kill Abel?

Ok here are some choices.
I'll get back later to answer this.

[frylock]

1. other - just to watch him die

ooops.. meant to post in the Johnny Cash thread!

[JVS]

9. Sweet

had to add that one

[HereSince1628]

14. Because Abel grazed his sheep on a field Cain planted

at least according to the Book of Jasher.

[foxy]

2. Definitely miscalculated n/t

[Bertha Venation]

3. frantically waving hand "pickmepickmepickme!"

Because Cain was a farmer and took an offering of grain to God. Abel was a rancher and took an offering of meat to God. But anyone who's read the Bible knows that God is a carnivore -- the Bible is dripping w/ God's bloodlust! So God was happier w/ Abel's offering than he was with Cain's, and Cain killed Abel in a fit of jealousy.

. . . and God sang, "that's why I love mankind."

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Yeah...

Cain basically said "All right, you almighty cocksucker. You want meat, huh? I'll give you meat." Heh.

[Bertha Venation]

10. LOL almighty cocksucker...

...wonder if I should tell that one to the rector at midnight mass this Wednesday....

[JVS]

11. Cain had taken fruit that had fallen on the ground

so he wasn't being completely forthright either

[Bertha Venation]

13. ah, forgot about that bit

Anyone ever heard Randy Newman's song called "God?" GREAT song for the atheist, the agnostic, the questioning Baptist . . . .

[Scott Lee]

4. To get into an Elton John song?

Free pie to the first DUer to name the song, and the album it appeared on.

[Bertha Venation]

6. what kind of pie?

(stalling... googling...)

[ronzo]

7. Loving wife sez:

Tower of Babel on CF&TBDC

she's an elton freak. :)

[Chief]

12. Also on "The One"

There is also a reference to Cain in the song "The One", from albums "The One" and "Love Songs" (courtesy of Google).

[BringEmOn]

8. Tower of Babel

Album: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy?

[roughsatori]

15. Cain was the originator of the James Dean archetype

But the LORD said , "Not so; whoever kills Cain, that person will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

I've been fascinated with Cain since my childhood.

"East of Eden" is a good movie too.

[madrchsod]

16. never happened-

it`s a myth, as is much of the bible...

[Bucky]

21. oh you're such a party pooper

[Spirochete]

17. Accidentally?

Had anyone ever died before Cain got into a fight with Abel? Did Cain realize that people were capable of dying? I'm not really up on all this biblical stuff, anymore.

[alphafemale]

18. He was the first militant vegetarian.

:evilgrin:

[Sapphocrat]

19. Other...

Bush is Satan.

Oops, sorry, wrong poll...

[TheMightyFavog]

20. I know the real reason!

Bingo Gazingo didn't have any change that day, and Cain wanted the whole ten dollars!

[Bucky]

22. For my #900 post... the correct answer

He was symbolizing the ancient enmity between the pastoral and the agricultural lifestyles whose conflicts were at the heart of many Biblical stories (the pastoral Jews vs the agrarian Egyptians; the shepherd David slaying Goliath, champion of the land-grabbing invaders; the humble prophet Nathan in the court of, um, one of those Israelite kings).

Abel was idealized, of course, and painted as the innocent victim. But in fact the ways of his brother, Cain, were going to win out as humans became more civilized. The farmers "slew" the flock-tenders much in the same way in the 20th Century video killed the radio star. Not by willful design, but by the happenstance of competing interests. It is an allegory of progress.

[JVS]

25. This theme also appears in the musical Oklahoma.

But it is resolved by a declaration of one of the elders that "Territory folk should stick together. Territory folk should all be friends"

[Selwynn]

23. To get to the other side? :)

[Fridays Child]

24. It was a "Fear Factor" challenge.

Wasn't it? :shrug:

[WoodrowFan]

26. Skull and Bones Ritual or CIA Hit?? (NT)