Cain and Abel

After Adam and Eve get expelled from the garden, they get busy and later have Cain, the first human born. They continue getting busy, and later have a second son, Abel. Cain was a farmer, while Abel was a shepherd. Both would routinely give offerings to God, Cain giving up some veggies and Abel slaughtering baby lambs. Obviously, God liked the slaughtered lambs a lot more than the veggies. This made Cain super-jealous, so he went with the obvious solution: killing his brother. God asks Cain where Abel is, and Cain gets all sassy and responds "Am I my brother's keeper?" God then finds about about the murder and curses Cain, so that he'll never be able to farm again and making him a vagabond. But since God is merciful-ish, he marks Cain so that no one will murder him for vengeance. Then Cain moves across the country to Nod and proceeds to have an unnecessarily-long list of descendants.

Analysis-wise, I feel like there's some interesting things to note in this story. One of the most significant is that apparently, God says no to vigilante justice, meaning that probably every superhero out there is a vile sinner. Also, when it first mentioned the mark, I started wondering if the Bible was being slightly racist and was saying that God turned Cain black. A little research concerning this theory revealed that literally no one else except the Mormons accepted the whole Cain-being-black thing, so I guess that's not really a thing after all. Oh well.

I feel like I'm going to have the same personal connection here as most people; namely, I have a sibling. Yes, I am the older sibling, and no, I have never considered brutally murdering my sister. This is chiefly because, unlike how God preferred Abel over Cain, I am much better than my little sister. I have nothing to be jealous of, and therefore allow her to live. I'm such a great brother, aren't I? And besides, if I do kill her, I have nothing to worry about since I already don't know how to farm, and getting turned black wouldn't be that bad, on the offhand that that's what the Bible meant.