Talk:Cain

About the "considered the first murderer part", what does that mean? Does that mean that we (or most of the people from around the world) all really believe that Cain was first of all a real person and second of all really committed the first murder, while there's evidence of human presence on this rock long before this story was supposed to take place? Come on, this is certainly not the place to make such claims. I don't care what you all believe, you should just be careful with generalisations like the one I just deleted. User:Mallerd (Zeg et es meisje) 00:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

It’s talking about the native English speakers of the U.S., UK, NZ, Canada, and Australia, who make up the audience of the English Wiktionary. I can only speak for the U.S., of course, but in the U.S. Cain is considered to have committed the first murder. I think it is the same in all of the English-speaking countries, but it is certainly true of the U.S. Many people realize that the Biblical account is not meant to be taken literally, but it is a matter of cultural convention that Cain committed the first murder. —Stephen 09:38, 1 August 2010 (UTC)