Matthew, Chapters 1-12

Like all of us, I was reluctant to start bible reading again. And sadly, my fears came true. The first chapter of Matthew is eerily similar to an earlier Genesis chapter, and in both of these, all that happened was a long and boring tale of genealogy, which have the same format: "Person 1 begat Person 2 and Person 2 begat Person 3" and so on so forth. The bible sadly is fond of repeating itself. But, it does pick up when it begins to tell the veyr familiar nativity story, which struck me as we are so close to Christmas.

Today people easily raised the children of others, as stepchildren or adopted children, because the social taboo has lessened, but men are still as intolerant of their woman being pregnant by another, because this still makes them feel less of a man, and less worthy as she has (most likely) cheated on him. And yet today, and in the past, women can forgive infidelity and even accept his children by other women. For example in the Colombian coast, the wives often know the mistresses and the children know each other. And they still have the ancient ranking system of the wife being first and most important to her husband and so on, which makes me think that polygamy is not an archaic and barbaric institution, but a normal process for humans, if the right atmoshpere is provided.