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They were "innocent." The whole point is that they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and now know there's more to existence than walking around the woods and loving each other. They develop concepts of things like danger and pain and also develop senses of shame.

The realization of nudity is a symbol and just the example they chose for Christianity's version of childhood's end. Our way out of being clay men for the Sumerians gods' wills was Enki protecting us, our way out of dying like cattle in the cold was Prometheus bringing us fire, and our way out of the Garden of Eden was becoming aware of the fact that we were human and capable of modesty. It's admittedly a pretty interesting example, because in the Old Testament nudity is treated as shameful and embarrassing elsewhere. A lot of older civilizations existing in the same time period viewed nudity as more of a natural state. I'm not entirely familiar with ancient jewish outlooks on that particular subject but while they were trying to convey a much larger message, i do think they were trying to convey that innocence had been lost and the ability to recognize you were doing something improper in being nude was the example they selected

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I pray god will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in truth