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- From: pst@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter Stephen Thomas Iii)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:10:41 GMT
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- In article <C01Koo.B93.1@cs.cmu.edu> drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes:
- >>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.
- >
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- I thought that the cross, as used by the Xians was a symbol of the sacrafice
- that Jesus supposedly made of himself to the world.
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- ". . . gave His only begotten Son etc, etc, etc, . . . "
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- Peter Thomas
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- "I'll lose my beard when they shave it from my cold, dead face!"
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- Quote from the Razor's Anonymous Handbook
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