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D.A. Wood reexamines the Eden myth through an atheist and existential lens, arguing that Adam and Eve's "fall" was not a moral failure but the birth of moral awareness—an awakening to shame, choice, and consequence. Through satire, theology, and philosophy, Wood portrays the Garden story not as divine justice but as a tragicomic origin of freedom under authoritarian rule.

Read this article and find accompanying references at:

https://secularhumanism.org/2025/07/condemned-to-freedom-an-atheist-strolls-through-eden/

About the Author: D. A. Wood teaches philosophy at Xavier and Dillard Universities in New Orleans. He is the author of La Minga, Canaäd, and Epistemic Decolonization and the editor/translator of Amílcar Cabral's Resistance and Decolonization.

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