What does a CRUCIFIX represent upside down?

Answer 1

a sword?

a funky lower case letter 't'?

xificurc... sounds like sci-fi croc!
(now that's scary...)

Answer 2

It's essentially just a shape. It only represents whatever the person holding or using it upside down believes it does. For them to believe it means anything upside down they either need to believe it means something the "right" way up, or that it means something to people they don't like when it's correctly positioned. As we've heard, St Peter, being an insanely pious kinda guy, asked not to be given the "honour" of being crucified "like his Lord", so they inverted him. Gotta love that Roman sense of humour. Unfortunately of course, he was the "first Pope", so the inversion of the symbol and the church were kind of linked then. Generally though, inversion is a quick and easy visual way of establishing the opposing principle to whatever the general meaning of the symbol is.

Answer 3

St Peter opted to be crucified upside down as he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Christ. Inversion of the crucifix is also mistakenly used by pseudo-satanists as an insult to Christianity.

Answer 4

well Its a symbol that "Satanist" use in their ceremonies, in a sense of mocking Jesus's sacrifice. if you think about it means anti-Christ, so It may represent the Antichrist (uhhh) I may be wrong though, maybe it does have another cristian meaning though, like St. Peter's cross. the crucifix its an original Cristian symbol, and I don't think that putting it upside down would give him an entirely new purpose. but its most of the times asociated with the devil and satanic practices.

Answer 5

Using the inversion of a symbol usually means that you are against everything that symbol stands for. An upside-down crucifix is almost always associated with satan and evil forces.

Answer 6

It could mean a number of things. In most cases, it means someone doesn't know how to place a cross on a wall such that it'll stay upright. It could also mean someone is a big fan of Black Sabbath. And finally, it is a woefully misguided attempt to show defiance towards christianity. I call it misguided because how defiant is that you acknowledge the religion at all by placing a cross, even upside down, on your wall.

Answer 7

A crucifix is a cross with the image of Jesus suffering on it. If it is upside down it represents either Satanism, or a diliberate insult to Christianity, usually by a lonely Highschool kid who is trying to shock their parents into noticing them.

If a mere cross is upside down, it can represent either those things or Peter, whom it is said asked to be crucified upside down. Allegedly it was because he did not believe himself worthy of dying like Jesus.

My theory is he was intelligent and realized his brain would red out nearly painlesly when all the blood collected in it, pressure would be taken of the nerve in his wrist, and his diaphragm would not be constricted like in normal crucifixion. He kinda just got his hands and feet impaled, then drifted off slowly into that good night, unconscious while bleeding out.

Answer 8

Upside down or sideward - crucifix is still a pagan symbol! Christ never ask man to look up to this physical cross but "his cross".

The wooden cross is not his cross however - it is a Roman cross - and a cursed wood at that. And this wooden cross (with or without Jesus) serves as a trophy for those who killed him.

Answer 9

not sure. But Jesus wasnt killed on a cross.....The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions (“torture stake” in NW) is stau‧ros′. In classical Greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a crosspiece. The Imperial Bible-Dictionary acknowledges this, saying: “The Greek word for cross, [stau‧ros′], properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling [fencing in] a piece of ground. . . . Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole.”—Edited by P. Fairbairn (London, 1874), Vol. I, p. 376............“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.

Answer 10

The same thing a non-crucifix upside down cross means----paganismn, satanic, anti-Christ, denomic, lovers of these things.

Answer 11

a jesus with a head ache.

okay, that was wrong.

it only means what you believe it means. it's no more satanistic than our government. some neo satanists use it to represent the antichrist, but to me it's an upside down "T". i am a long time practicing pagan, and i have little patience for satanists. they're rather boring and self consumed. it's a path, i will agree, but an unenlightened one.