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- From: lib1p@jane.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
- Summary: Meanings of and thought about the symbol 'Cross'
- Message-ID: <29DEC199212214576@jane.uh.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:21:00 GMT
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- In article <1hp5e0INNg2t@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>, hz225wu@unidui.UUCP (Micaela "Stayka" Pantke) writes...
- >Hi there - Stayka is here!
- >
- >During Xmas time something strange occured to me: I saw a Cross.
- >Well, that might not be too strange considering the fact that it's
- >one of the Holy Symbols of Xianity - but this time I wondered -
- >why in Zandru's Hells do they WORSHIP it?
- >
- >In my eyes the Cross is nothing else than the murdering instrument
- >which killed the Xian Messiah Jesus Christ. And then I kept on
- >wondering... What would have happened if Jesus would have been shot
- >down with a rifle? Would the rifle have become a Holy Symbol of
- >Xianity?
- >
-
- In the early days of Xtianity the cross was not worshipped. In fact
- it was a point of shame that their Christ was crucified. It was a
- social stygma to be associated with someone who was crucified. And
- it was a way of vilifying (sp) the person who was sentenced to death.
-
- The early symbol of Xtianity was the fish, like is becomming popular
- today. However, just a couple of centuries later, the church was
- attempting to convert pagan peoples in various parts of the world.
- They used the method of taking over the pagan places of worship and
- holidays and re-making them into Xtian places of worship and holidays.
-
- As I have been told, the cross was an ancient pagan symbol pre-dating
- Christ. It was probably adopted because society no longer had such
- strong stygmatisms towards it and it was easy to convert it over.
-
- NO...I don't have verifiable proof of this. I do have verifiable
- proof of the conversion process. Just keep in mind Occam's Razor
- would ya, just for once.....
-
-
- Tammy the philosopher
-