Is Apple’s logo blasphemy? The Russian Orthodox Church apparently thinks so. This is the kind of silliness that plagues religion and wastes everyone’s time, as well as turning people off to actual “faith.” The difference between “religion” and “faith” is typified by this kind of nonsense. People think “if this is what religion spends its time and energy on, I’m not interested in being part of it.” It becomes laughable. The designers at apple present a whole different explanation of what it meant to them…and besides, the “real apple” had not one but two bites out of it!!
If we are going to go along with this kind of reactionary thinking, then why not ban all apples from the grocery store? Why not arrest people for taking a bite out of an apple. To further waste time on this, it is important to note that the Bible doesn’t even say it is an apple that Eve gave to Adam. Since we don’t even know if it was an apple, I guess we have to ban all fruit and fruit symbols just to make sure. No more underwear by Fruit of the Loom, either. Good grief! Many in the Christian world suggest the whole “apple” story is an allegory to represent man’s fall into self-centeredness from God-centeredness. Whether we believe that or not doesn’t really matter overly much, as long as we understand that man chose to obtain the knowledge and power of God and become his equal which caused our downfall.
Instead of wasting time, energy and money trying to ban Apple products in Russia, why not spend some effort getting rid of genuine corruption and crime there? Why not spend some time working on righting some of the “real” wrongs in society or serving the poor or spreading the faith instead.
It wouldn’t surprise me if all this weren’t really designed as a plan to boost sales of some Russian knock-off computer company “Ipad” and get rid of American influence there.
To my friends reading this in Russia: Don’t waste your faith energy getting involved in this kind of thing. And if you want to support the Russian economy by buying something made in Russia, then do that. Just don’t make it about Religion.
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