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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] What. The. Fuck??!?
From:       Ben McIlwain <cydeweys () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-12 17:29:45
Message-ID: 4464C609.1020303 () gmail ! com
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Guettarda wrote:
> Ben's rotating cross may or may not be meant to be offensive - I'll take his
> word on it that he didn't mean it to be offensive.  All angles is actually
> kind of clever.  And as to an upside down cross being an offense to
> Christianity - maybe you should have told that to Peter.  Surely he's a
> great offense to Christians everywhere.  After all, we should never trust
> the person Jesus selected, the rock upon which he built his church.
> 
> For that matter - the cross is meant to be offensive.  It's an instruments
> of torture and execution.  Symbol of the rejection and execution of Jesus.
> It's supposed to shock you.

I will agree here.  Personally I find the whole symbol ridiculous.
Especially the really explicit ones with Jesus still on it and the
painted on leaking blood from the Longinus wound and hands and feet.
Why you would want something like that in your house or around your neck
is beyond me.  But I never say anything about it and I don't try to
force other people to get rid of it.  My animated cross is a lot less
explicit than some of the other ones out there.

- --
Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")

~ Sub veste quisque nudus est ~
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