"Pumeco, all I have to say about that image is -- BORING. The whole snake, women, devil thing has been soooo overdone. It's cliche to the max. Sheesh. Don't people have any new ideas?"

Don't knock it.  Out of curiosity I just cropped the crap off the bottom and converted it to Black and White, looks every bit as good as I thought it would.

"Why would women think snakes are erotic?"

Presumably for the same reason a man would, but to be honest, I don't care whether a woman finds it erotic because an image like that is obviously created to appeal to the male of our species, not the female.  It's the power of suggestion that makes having a snake in the same image as a nude woman, erotic, it's not the snake itself that is erotic.

"I get why this is a great metaphor for the Devil -- but if you're not interested in the religious symbolism, then the whole thing makes no sense at all."

Nonsense, how can something I don't know about have any meaning to me in the first place?  And why would such an image have no interest to me just because I don't understand why some religion has taken it upon themselves to make Mr Devil Snake symbolic of something?  Even now, I still don't see any religious symbolism in it, so tell me, what's religious about it, cause the only thing I can imagine is that maybe, what is on Mr Devil Snake's mind, is somehow frowned upon by a religion?

Is that it?

If that's all it is, then it's not even religious symbolism.  Such things cannot be considered religious just because some religion doesn't like it.  As far as I'm concerned (and I'm not religious), Mr Devil Snake has his head well and truly screwed-on.  Whatever he's doing, it's getting him a lot more attention from the ladies than I ever get.  The only thing Mr Devil Snake "symbolises" to me, is a clever bastard - I want his phone number - we need to chat - I need to know his secret - I want to see his little Red book of Funtime Girls.

I would be just as within my right to claim Mr Devil Snake as a symbolism of "Luck with the Ladies" as some religion would be to claim him as a religious symbol.  I would like to know why it's considered a religious symbol, but I'm pretty sure, even before I find out, that the reason will be laughable to say the least.  I couldn't care less about religion, so religious symbolism is no such thing to me, I'm not religious, and religious symbolism should only have meaning to those that are religious.

All I know is, put Mr Devil Snake in the same image as a naked woman, and he symbolises only one thing, it has nothing to do with religion, and the only thing I'd be "worshipping" are the assets in the image, not a God ;-)