Context: I sometimes hear the argument that god explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the same way a parent tells its child not to stick things or touch electrical outlets. So god forcing the two of them to have children and dooming every human ever since is perfectly justified.
Also the consequences that “doomed the race” were the god’s response to noticing they had eaten the fruit, not from the fruit itself.
A story about an abusive authority written by people who wanted authority to abuse but had to convince others that they spoke for an all-powerful being.
I’ve been saying that all along, Applie is an abusive daddy & it’s not even about the product.