"Because God didn’t paint those,” I reply. “The church did. People did. You know why Eve snacked on an apple in the garden of Eden? Because the Hebrew and Greek text said fruit, but the Latin translation for apple was a pun with the word evil. When St. Jerome translated it, he added the pun as a little joke, and now look at every Eden depiction. All of history altered by one guy’s little translation gag.”
“That’s a tiny shift, not the exact opposite thing,” Saul retorts. “If demons thrive in cold and fear the heat, why make a switch? Revelation 20:15, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
“You ever hear that story about the Vikings discovering Iceland and Greenland, then switching the names to keep the lush «beauty of Iceland for themselves?” I ask. Saul nods.“There’s your answer. It’s all about control,” I continue. “It always has been.»
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