Clients from Hell - a site where designers relate their worst professional experiences - has posted a revelatory anecdote in which a Christian client explains why Macs are sinful:
You need only look at their logo, an apple with a bite taken from it. Do you not know the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? If I allowed you to create my website on a MAC I would be just like Adam, taking a bite of the forbidden fruit.
Pictured above: an Apple Temptation desktop wallpaper designed by Lawrence Lew, a Dominican friar whose Flickr stream features spiritual art & architecture. Adds Lawrence:
Of course, I need to add as a theological point, that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not an apple. Rather, there is a pun in Latin: 'mala' is an apple, 'malum' is evil. I think this is how the apple became identified with the eating of this fruit, an act of disobedience to the divine will, through which sin entered the world.
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