When G-d told Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply,” such bidding was immediately followed with “and replenish the earth.”

Whether or not you believe that the men (could they have been women?) who wrote Genesis were divinely inspired, you will have to agree that they were at least very prescient, foreseeing the day when the land would be overflowing, not with milk and honey, but with discarded plastics, electronic gadgets, tin cans, and other forms of rubbish.

Today, I think we can communicate to G-d, relative to the command of being fruitful and multiplying, “mission accomplished.” Most people would say we have actually overdone it. READ MORE »

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