Cain and Abel – The first brothers

If I did twice the work and got less than half the reward, I’d be pretty upset too

After Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden they started popping out babies like crazy.

 

Their first two kids were boys named Abel and Cain. When they got old enough their parents put Abel in charge of herding the sheep and put Cain in charge of grain production. What this means is that mostly Abel walked around following the sheep and tried to keep them safe from lions and bears and stuff while Cain worked his ass off every damn day ploughing, planting, reaping, and threshing.
 

These were both important jobs but for whatever reason the more you work the less credit you get. When the time came to offer sacrifices to Elohim the creator; Abel brought some baby sheep and baby sheep fat while Cain brought a bag of wheat. Because Elohim is a big fan of blood and fat he really liked Abel’s sacrifice but he totally disrespected Cain.

 

Now Cain worked really hard for that wheat so he was all kinds of crazy upset that Elohim didn’t like it. Elohim noticed Cain was upset and asked him, “What are you getting your panties all in a bunch for? If you do well I’ll accept your stuff. If you don’t, sin will get you. Then it’s up to you to control sin so you don’t wind up its slave.”

Apparently this little pep talk did nothing for Cain because the next time he saw Abel out in the fields he took a big rock and smashed in Abel’s skull so he could get some baby sheep for kill for Elohim’s pleasure. It didn’t take long for Elohim to notice Abel was missing and he went straight to Cain to find out what was going on. He said, “Hey Cain, I can’t find your brother. Where is he?” Cain was very clever and answered, “How should I know? I’m like, not the boss of him, and stuff.”
 

 

Well Elohim wasn’t fooled. He said to Cain, “You jerk. I can totally tell you killed your brother. Now you are cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive your brother’s blood. From now on when you till the earth it won’t be nearly as productive as before.” Cain didn’t think this was fair and he said, “Hey, that’s too much. If that’s true, people will start to think it’s my fault when crops don’t grow well and they will kill me.” Elohim didn’t want Cain to die so he said, “Ok, pay attention universe: from this time forward anyone who kills Cain will have vengeance visited upon him at least seven times as bad.” Then Elohim put a mark upon Cain so everyone would know to not kill him.

 

After Cain was cursed, he took his wife/sister and walked east for a while before starting a new city with their kids.

 

This should be the end of the story, but the early Mormon leaders read the bible and decided the “mark of Cain” is dark skin and those with dark skin are inferior to people with white skin. God doesn’t like the dark people unless they manage to become good inside, in which case their skin becomes white. They even created the idea that one of Noah’s sons had a black wife to keep the dark skin gene going, then justified the poor treatment of blacks by teaching those born with dark skin didn’t love Jesus enough before they were born to earn white skin. Aren’t Mormons cool?

 

Bruce R. McConkey
(Taken from Wikipedia 19 Aug 2014)

"Cain, Ham, and the whole negro race have been cursed with a black skin, the mark of Cain, so they can be identified as a caste apart, a people with whom the other descendants of Adam should not intermarry.” - Bruce R. McConkie

 

Ref: Genesis 4