Quote Originally Posted by Onua Nuva View Post
I'm sure lots of people read the Bible, but honestly, how many people are afraid of snakes because of their role in the Bible? Pretty much nobody!
It's not a question of whether someone is afraid of snakes because of their role in a story, but rather one of whether that base preconception of snakes (which are used as a metaphor for satan in the bible) as evil animals becomes accepted as being a foundation truth.

Beyond that, all rationalizations about them are jaded by that single inaccurate grain of information that was mentally ascribed as truth.