Apple’s logo not sinful, nor did it have anything to do with Adam and Eve
Every day, the world edges closer to becoming an episode of The Day Today, with a news cycle that is beyond satire. Today, The Register reports:
Russian Orthodox Christians have defaced the logos on Apple products because they consider the bitten Apple to be anti-Christian, says Russian news agency Interfax.
The radical Christians have replaced the Apple logo with a cross, claiming that the current Apple logo – well-known around the world and often voted one of the world’s most popular logos – symbolises the original sin of Adam and Eve and is generally insulting to the Christian faith.
The Register adds a new law is currently barrelling its way through the Russian Parliament to clamp down on religious insults, and there is speculation that
there could be commercial impact, even a sales ban, if Apple fell on the wrong side of the law.
But how would Apple fall on the wrong side of the law? In a sane world, this would be an argument about intent and not speculation, and as Apple logo designer Rob Janoff once told me in an interview:
The religious myths are just that […] there’s no ‘Eve and Garden of Eden’ and ‘bite from the fruit of knowledge’ symbolism!
Unfortunately, this no longer appears to be a sane world (if it ever was).
As if there weren’t enough crazy in this story already, it’s worth remembering that nowhere in the bible is there any mention of apples. The ‘forbidden fruit’ is never named, it’s just convention (and the fashions of renaissance painting) that have led people to think of it as an apple.
Many historians seem to think it’s more likely to refer to a quince.
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt, the people who know least about their religion are the fanatics.
Religion poisons everything.
So the main thrust of their argument (sic) is… “I don’t like it so it must be banned!!”
Idiots.