Is the PEACE sign a satanic symbol?

Question

I saw this story which seems a little silly to me:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_re_us/anti_peace_sign

Some people in the story are saying that the peace sign it a satanic symbol. I've never heard of this.

About the wreath; I doubt anyone who conceived of the idea to create it, designed it, manufactured it, sold it, bought it, or displayed it did so to promote satan.

If I were a religious person in the USA where religious speech is protected, I might hesitate to use that argument since I would expect the same laws that protect the free speech of religious proponents to also protect this symbol.

Maybe I'm jaded, but it seems that some of the supporters of the current war may be looking for an excuse to remove an innocent expression of "goodwill on earth and peace to man".
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Answer 1

Did anyone notice the last line of the article?
"Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members."

Kudos to the committee members. I think this association needs to revisit their rules - this president should be impeached!

Answer 2

Any symbol "means" what the majority of the people who use it take it to mean. The swastika wasn't invented by the Nazis, but now it is strongly associated with the Nazis and it's other meaning- unification- is no longer usable.
Symbols have no power whatsoever other than the power that the users of the symbols place upon them. If people see the circle containing an inverted, broken cross as a symbol of the absence of warfare, then it is a peace sign. If people see the inverted, broken cross as anti-Christian, then to them it is anti-Christian. Maybe the people who want peace could come up with a symbol that doesn't offend anyone- after all, what are people who promote peace supposed to be doing?
I don't think that it speaks very highly of people to object to peace because they think that a symbol that is used in the peace movement is somehow offensive. I see taking offense as a behavior that leads away from peace and toward war. Was Jesus into talismanic magic? Or peace?
I can stare at a peace sign for hours and not feel closer to Satan, but maybe that's because of the love in my heart.
Religion should help people overcome anger.

Answer 3

I was reading a history of the peace sign, for some reason, so the story goes, used by Nero, inverted broken cross. But a symbol is just a symbol, a group adds the meaning, so symbols may also be timely.

Answer 4

Some Christians claim that the Peace Symbol is a Satanic sigil called the Cross of Nero. However, there is no credible evidence for the so-called Cross of Nero before the mid-20th century. It is basically a made-up story used by right-wing Christians to try to discredit the use of the Peace Symbol by typically left-wing liberals in the 1960s. As mentioned above, the Peace Symbol was first created in 1958 by Bertrand Russell as a symbol representing the semaphore signal flags for ND, or total nucelar disarmament. Incidently, St. Peter was crucified upside down at his own request, according to legend, because he did not feel that he was worthy to be crucified in the same way as Christ. The Latin Cross that today symbolizes Christianity was not in widespread use during the time of Emperor Nero. The Icthys fish (a ancient pagan symbol eagerly used by fundamentalist Christians today) was the symbol of the earliest Christians who would have been around in Nero's day. So basically the whole story of the "Cross of Nero" and its Satanic connections have no credibility historically. People will read into symbols whatever they choose and in this case the people chose to read that it was anti-war (i.e.liberal) and so they just fell back on the old ways of trying to discredit something they disagree with by connecting it to either Commies or Satan.

Answer 5

The peace sign to some is known as "The Witches Foot" It is to resemble a chicken's foot which for some reason they say is what some witches have. I have no idea why. All I can really figure out about this is that one Sinbad movie that I went to see when I was a kid where the woman who was a witch turned into a bird of some kind and she was shot before she could turn all the way back and so she had a foot that looked like a bird's claw. Hahahah it didn't have anything to do with real life stuff though. It just may be superstition.

Answer 6

The origin of the CND, or peace symbol, is well-documented. The symbol is in no way related to Satan. Those residents who complained don't like it because they don't like anyone criticizing the government they support and a war they consider righteous.

The peace sign has long been associated with anti-war demonstrations, so it's fair to consider it as an "anti-war" message, but it's sad to see a symbol for peace removed as undesirable and "anti-Christ."

Reads to me as though Mr. Kearns and other members of the homeowner's association are on a personal pro-war crusade. The Architectural Committee was asked to intervene and then forced to resign by the board when they ruled that the covenants and restrictions had not been violated.

Answer 7

"Known as the 'peace sign' throughout the 1960's and into the present day, this symbol is the Teutonic rune of death. 1950's peace advocate Gerald Holtom may have been commissioned by communist sympathiser Bertrand Russell to design a symbol to unite leftist peace marchers in 1958. It is clear that either Holtom or Russell deemed the Teutonic (Neronic) cross as the appropriate symbol for their cause.

"Throughout the last 2,000 years this symbol has designated hatred of Christians. Nero, who despised Christians, crucified the Apostle Peter on a cross head downward. This hideous event resembled the Teutonic cross and became a popular pagan insignia of the day. Thereafter, this sign became known as the 'Neronic cross.'

"The symbol's origin in history proves it to be the visual mystic character for 'Aum' (the split 'Y'). This is the sacred word to the Hindu. Chanting 'Aum' is supposed to help awaken 'the serpent power of Brahma' at the base of the human spine. Occultist Albert Pike also identifies this symbol as mystical in his book on Freemasonry Morals and Dogma.

The peace symbol (also called the "broken cross," "crow's foot," "witch's foot," "Nero Cross," "sign of the 'broken Jew,'" and the "symbol of the 'anti-Christ''') is actually a cross with the arms broken. It also signifies the "gesture of despair," and the "death of man.''

"The Germanic tribes who used it attributed strange and mystical properties to the sign. Such a 'rune' is said to have been used by 'black magicians' in pagan incantations and condemnations....To this very day the inverted broken cross--identical to the socialists' 'peace' symbol--is known in Germany as a 'todersrune,' or death rune. Not only was it ordered by Hitler's National Socialists that it must appear on German death notices, but it was part of the official inscription prescribed for the gravestones of Nazi officers of the dread SS. The symbol suited Nazi emphasis on pagan mysticism.''

Answer 8

Yea I agree its bogus. I think I will buy 10,000 wreaths and get a tattoo of a peace sign. Never like the admin anyway! =O

();-D
shadowgirl

Answer 9

I read once that the "peace" symbol was supposed to be a depiction of a broken cross. It was supposed to mean that if religion were dead then we could live in peace.

I don't believe it... I think it's simply a symbol.

Answer 10

well, if you live in a community with a home owners association you don't have any rights if the board of directors decide they don't want you to have any. they'll just keep finding "violations" of the covenants and lean your property out of your ability to pay and then foreclose.