What does it say about a religion who's symbolic icon is a torture device?

Question

isn't using the cross just like the GOP using John Wilkes Booth's bullet that shattered Lincoln's skull as their symbol instead of the elephant?

Answer 1

People find it permissable to do what their gods do. Apparently, in Christianity, they think the god will order His own son brutally tortured and murdered (as if to settle some vendetta.) In any other realm of life we call that "infanticide" and we recoil in horror.
It creates a violent people and explains a lot about those people on the far right in America.
I think Jesus may have been a great being, but Christianity has been a disgrace.

Answer 2

First its not a cross, its two sticks of wood nailed together.
the wood on top was never in the middle but very close to the top.Indeed it was a execution method.Please people read your history books.I have no problem if someone uses it but use it correctly.We must all remember that maybe in the future this will be looked upon as primitive.All religions including myth was once believed in there is no way of knowing if one day Jesus will become just a myth.And no I am not against anybody that believes I am speaking merely from a historic point of view.

Answer 3

More to the point, what does it say about a religion who focuses on the death and torture of a human being? The point is, supposedly, the resurrection...but the symbol, as you've pointed out, is the cross.

I think if nothing else, it leads to a culture of guilt and self-torture (if your hero is tortured, why shouldn't you be?).

Answer 4

--An idol for worship is idolatry!
--An icon for worship is idolatry1
--An image for worship is idolatry!

WHAT do the scriptures say about all idoatry--- Besides what is totally condemned in the first 4 Commandements that God gave to the Israelites? (Ex. 20)

(1 Corinthians 10:14) 14 Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry". . .

(Colossians 3:5) Deaden, therefore, YOUR body members that are upon the earth as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry."

(1 John 5:21) Little children, guard yourselves from idols."

--WHAT WOULD JESUS have done with any of the icon, image, idol makersetc. if say they started to make images of the beheading instruement that was used on John the Baptizer?

--MIGHT HE have taken a whip to them for false worship?

--MODERN IDOLATRY --sports, entertainment, political , religious figures etc. are religiously worshipped!

--MOSES gave an interesting observence as he recorded Jobs biography , as Job cautioned:

(Job 31:26-28) 26 If I used to see the light when it would flash forth, Or the precious moon walking along, 27 And my heart began to be enticed in secrecy And my hand proceeded to kiss my mouth, 28 That too would be an error for [attention by] the justices, For I should have denied the [true] God above."

--INTERESTING POINT that if Job gave more appreaciation to the moon, by just A SLIGHT kiss at it, that bordered on worship , HE WOULD INVALIDATE his worship of God!

--SO THEN because both Jehovah God & Christ Jesus loath any kind of idolatry , EVEN of themselves!
--THEN RELIGIONS that practice any form of idolatry is NOT VALID in God's eyes, seems to make sense to me?

Answer 5

Not all Christians view the cross as an icon of their religion, but remember that the Christian view is that because of Christ's sacrifice for us mankind can be saved.

There is no worshipping of torture devices in any Christian sect I am aware of; this is a reminder of Christ's love and sacrifice; not the same thing at all.

Answer 6

some people think of its unusual people positioned on crosses, isn't that faulty after all he became tortured on it? If Jesus is in heaven and there are angels why no longer have him putting on a necklace with wings? If He have been stoned to dying with rocks might one positioned on him bent over a boulder? that is only their concern, hence they do it? stay & permit stay!

Answer 7

It says absolutely nothing. It's your intepretation (more precisely, or lack of understanding) that says something. Are all democrats asses because they have a donkey as a symbol? What is the atheists' symbol? A null sign?

Answer 8

As a matter of fact, it says everything.

"But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Gal. 6:14

"For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God." 1 Cor. 1:18

Answer 9

It says "We remember what you went through Jesus just for us and you didn't have to do it except you loved us enough to suffer not just the pain but the utter humiliation of taking on your sinless self ALL of our most disgusting sins.
In other words it symbolizes the truest form of Love.

Answer 10

No, I see nothing wrong with Christians using the cross as their symbol. It evokes what they consider the central event in the history of the world--the crucifixion and subsequent resurrection of Jesus, whom they consider the Christ. It represents his ultimate sacrifice for them.