have a form of execution as their main symbol?
Is that not sadistic?
2006-09-21 18:09:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so no religions have a form of execution as their symbol, not even any cults? anyone?
2006-09-21 18:18:14 · update #1
so christianity has a human sacrifice as their symbol?
2006-09-21 18:22:05 · update #2
as said, the main "symbols" of judaism are a star of david or a torah scroll... but neither are like... a focal symbol for prayer or anything like that, no physical representation or image of god at all, because that would be idolotry, or at least, close enough that it would easily fall into idolotry, and thus is specifically avoided.
but yeah, I'd say most people would call a cross to represent a crucifixion... just less graphically than a crucifix, either way the biggest symbol being representative of an execution.
2006-09-21 18:39:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism's "main symbol" is the star of David, or a Torah scroll. Nothing too sadistic about that. Islam's main symbol is a star and crescent. Buddhism has the wheel of life as their symbol. Hinduism has the word, "Om" as their symbol. Protestant Christianity has just a cross.
2006-09-22 01:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They prefer a cruci-fiction symbol over what the symbol originally was, a phallus. The damned ascetics took control of an otherwise perfectly good sex cult and turned it into a death cult instead.
2006-09-22 01:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by lenny 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My symbol is the empty tomb.
2006-09-22 01:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cross represents the sacrifice our sweet savior made for us.
2006-09-22 01:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋