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The Cross of Christianity: GOOD or EVIL?

Posted by thefiveelements • 4/09/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: beliefs, Christ, christianity, cross, crucifixion, philosophy, religion, Spirituality

The Cross was designed to Crucify People. Christ was not the first victim of the cross, nor was he the last. History has witnessed people being slaughtered on a mass scale, burned alive, lynched & many other kinds of Cruelties, all in which the cross symbol plays a major role. So why is the cross a symbol of (Christianity) a religion of God?

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4/09/09

satijournal

Christianity is all about death, or more specifically -- what happens when you die. You have to believe that Christ was the savior or you don't get salvation after you die. Even if you're the biggest jack-ass in the world, if you believe in Jesus, then you gain entry into heaven. What a religion.

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1. 4/09/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  right, then you can shake hands with Al Capone, Mussolini, Hitler and all those Popes.
  
  I know, the popes was going a bit far. My bad
2. 4/09/09
  
  morgantj
  
  Yea, it is a death cult.
4/09/09

legbamel

OMG, it's not bad enough to have people pushing their beliefs with thread after thread, now we have to have people baiting them with multiple threads? C'mon, live and let live, people! Don't feed the trolls, don't be a troll.

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4/09/09

ScreamBucket

The "dude on the cross" symbol wasn't prevalent until later in christianity, perhaps about early middle ages. Jesus didn't have a beard until about the same time - he was clean shaven as was the Roman custom of the time. The "halo" effect was also developed later - possibly to distinguish the holy from a group of people who all looked rather similar.

I saw a recent depiction of jesus that looked strikingly like Brad Pitt.

Suffering has become a central theme in christian dogma, a theme that also developed later. Salvation was linked to the suffering, and salvation became quite an income earner for the church when it learned it could sell forgiveness in the late middle ages.

Early christian belief was stupefyingly complex, and it took centuries to sort out the basic liturgy. Suffering, salvation, and the attendant symbols stuck through time, the original dialogues receding into theology beyond the scope of mere mortals.

Nailing a guy to cross got everybodys attention, an image that spoke for itself.

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