I know that it can have ties to kkk, but what if anything else? Serious answers only please.
2007-07-23 08:39:14 · 8 answers · asked by Jason 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Originally(and still in some Guy Fawkes Day cross-burnings in Britain) the meaning was Anti Catholic since the Reformed Protestants rejected the use of the Cross until the late 18th or even early 20th cent.
Burning a cross was like burning a symbol of Catholicism and to a lesser degree a symbol of "weak and unreformed" forms of Protestantism like Lutheranism ,which used crosses and even crucifixes and religious images in Europe from the beginning.
The KKK is an AntiCatholic as well as racist,Antisemitic and anti"foriegn" Nativist ideology.
Some KKK spokesmen now call it "lighting' or "illuminating" the Cross because the plain cross is now so common in all forms of Protestantism-,just about.
2007-07-23 08:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The KKK burns crosses as an act of terrorism, to inspire fear in people.
2007-07-23 08:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by parcequilfaut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The KKK is the only organization I've heard of that burns crosses, in the USA at least. I'm sure there are radical sects of Islam that do the same in the Middle East.
2007-07-23 08:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Methodist symbol is a cross with a red flame type thing wrapped around it.
2007-07-23 08:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
no other meanings. just the kkk.
2007-07-23 08:42:17 · answer #5 · answered by lins 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
time for me to move out of the neighborhood
2007-07-23 08:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by reelperspectiv 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
the *unwelcome* wagon is in town...
2007-07-23 08:41:48 · answer #7 · answered by chieko 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
christian hell denomination
2007-07-23 08:44:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋