Who else when seeing a cross on a church thinks of evil?

Question

Because you know in that building people are being blinded to the truth and being told absolute rubbish and forced to believe it under threat of hell. You know in that building there could be children who are formulating opinions on the world and who's minds are being saturated by religious lies that they will now believe for the rest of there lives making them almost useless in the scientific community when these children could one day have been great scientists advancing man kind to new levels of science but now won't as they have been told that god exists and everything they need to know is in the bible. People are being told what to believe and not to formulate there own opinions under threat of spending all eternity in torment in hell. Churches are truly evil places.

Answer 1

Sounds like you already answered your own question MORON!

Answer 2

It is my opinion as a born again believer, that science is fundementally the study of God's creation. They are complementry and not contradictary, they are mutually inclusive not exclusive. They are in my opinion back to back views of the same horizon, each having their own 180 degree view of the same circle. Science however (unlike the word of God) does not have a perfect track record. It does somtimes get things wrong only to be corrected by superior scientific knoweledge.

There is absolutely no reason why a devout Christian can not also be a world class scientist (and vice versa). A true Christian relationship with God is not just a "hell prevention plan" it's more having a loving and intimate relationship your creator.

Answer 3

I think of it as yet another example of the many idolatrous practices of a people who are commanded to be idol free. Yes, what goes on inside most of those buildings are often just as you say: blinding to the truth, rubbish, opinionated etc, but unlike you I believe in YHVH, heaven and hell and all the things these people in these buildings are supposed to be teaching me and my children, free of all the other garbage they include (at a high price).

Answer 4

The cross is a symbol of evil even before they murdered Jesus on the cross the cross was a symbol that the sun worshipers would carry back in Egypt.

Answer 5

Christians dont believe because of fear of hell, they believe because of the love of God. Christians dont practice a religion, they practice a realationship with Christ and God. Get it right before you accuse and get blinded by your own lies.

Answer 6

oh its not evil.
you exaggerate.
people can be great scientists and believe in god at the same time, its not mutually exclusive.
its always a choice, you can believe what they say, or you don't. those who believe go to church, that's all.

Answer 7

What were the historical origins of Christendom’s cross?

“Various objects, dating from periods long anterior to the Christian era, have been found, marked with crosses of different designs, in almost every part of the old world. India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples . . . The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times and among non-Christian peoples may probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship.”—Encyclopædia Britannica (1946), Vol. 6, p. 753.
“The shape of the [two-beamed cross] had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the cross of Christ.”—An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (London, 1962), W. E. Vine, p. 256.

“It is strange, yet unquestionably a fact, that in ages long before the birth of Christ, and since then in lands untouched by the teaching of the Church, the Cross has been used as a sacred symbol. . . . The Greek Bacchus, the Tyrian Tammuz, the Chaldean Bel, and the Norse Odin, were all symbolised to their votaries by a cruciform device.”—The Cross in Ritual, Architecture, and Art (London, 1900), G. S. Tyack, p. 1.
“The cross in the form of the ‘Crux Ansata’ . . . was carried in the hands of the Egyptian priests and Pontiff kings as the symbol of their authority as priests of the Sun god and was called ‘the Sign of Life.’”—The Worship of the Dead (London, 1904), Colonel J. Garnier, p. 226.

“Various figures of crosses are found everywhere on Egyptian monuments and tombs, and are considered by many authorities as symbolical either of the phallus [a representation of the male sex organ] or of coition. . . . In Egyptian tombs the crux ansata [cross with a circle or handle on top] is found side by side with the phallus.”—A Short History of Sex-Worship (London, 1940), H. Cutner, pp. 16, 17; see also The Non-Christian Cross, p. 183.

“These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god, [See book], and are first seen on a coin of Julius Cæsar, 100-44 B.C., and then on a coin struck by Cæsar’s heir (Augustus), 20 B.C. On the coins of Constantine the most frequent symbol is [See book]; but the same symbol is used without the surrounding circle, and with the four equal arms vertical and horizontal; and this was the symbol specially venerated as the ‘Solar Wheel’. It should be stated that Constantine was a sun-god worshipper, and would not enter the ‘Church’ till some quarter of a century after the legend of his having seen such a cross in the heavens.”—The Companion Bible, Appendix No. 162; see also The Non-Christian Cross, pp. 133-141.

Is veneration of the cross a Scriptural practice?

1 Cor. 10:14: “My beloved ones, flee from idolatry.” (An idol is an image or symbol that is an object of intense devotion, veneration, or worship.)

Ex. 20:4, 5, JB: “You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.” (Notice that God commanded that his people not even make an image before which people would bow down.)

Of interest is this comment in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The representation of Christ’s redemptive death on Golgotha does not occur in the symbolic art of the first Christian centuries. The early Christians, influenced by the Old Testament prohibition of graven images, were reluctant to depict even the instrument of the Lord’s Passion.”—(1967), Vol. IV, p. 486.

Concerning first-century Christians, History of the Christian Church says: “There was no use of the crucifix and no material representation of the cross.”—(New York, 1897), J. F. Hurst, Vol. I, p. 366.

Does it really make any difference if a person cherishes a cross, as long as he does not worship it?

How would you feel if one of your dearest friends was executed on the basis of false charges? Would you make a replica of the instrument of execution? Would you cherish it, or would you rather shun it?

In ancient Israel, unfaithful Jews wept over the death of the false god Tammuz. Jehovah spoke of what they were doing as being a ‘detestable thing.’ (Ezekiel 8:13, 14) According to history, Tammuz was a Babylonian god, and the cross was used as his symbol. From its beginning in the days of Nimrod, Babylon was against Jehovah and an enemy of true worship. (Gen. 10:8-10; Jer. 50:29) So by cherishing the cross, a person is honoring a symbol of worship that is opposed to the true God.

As stated at Ezekiel 8:17, apostate Jews also ‘thrust out the shoot to Jehovah’s nose.’ He viewed this as “detestable” and ‘offensive.’ Why? This “shoot,” some commentators explain, was a representation of the male sex organ, used in phallic worship.

Answer 8

read Ann coulter's new book :Godless, the Church of liberalism...i know it wont do anything for you.....but hopefully your brain will explode...:))

Answer 9

Or worse....you could be blinded by anti-christian liberal society.

Answer 10

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