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[–] 15 points 2 hours ago

Those things are dangerous. One of them killed Jesus. You’d think they wouldn’t want to keep them around everywhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Ok, my idol got killed by this thing. Let's celebrate him by having it everywhere. Christians are such a weird cult.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 hour ago*

    You know, I don’t know what you all believe and I don’t really care, but you have to admit, beliefs are odd. A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It’s kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a little sniper riffle pin, you know. “How are you Jackie, we’re just thinking of John. We loved him. We loved him. Yea, he was great.”

    — Bill Hicks

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  • [–] 7 points 1 hour ago

    The crucifix itself isn't the weird part; people use symbols as stand-ins for concepts all the time. They celebrate what his death signifies to them: God giving them a way to escape the punishment he's threatened us with as consequences of his own error. How gracious of him, that he made us so worthless, then gave us a chance to win his approval by having someone else tortured in our stead.

    The weird part is that they consider the crucifix a symbol of love. "Let's use a torture device as a symbol of mercy".

    Christians are, indeed, a weird cult.

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  • [–] 1 point 27 minutes ago

    He might be a little confused. There is a possibility he wasn’t hung up on a cross the way we depict, but a more simple post instead. The cross we’re all familiar with might just be another ripoff of pagan symbols, “x” and “+” have always held some significance in religions.

    I can also believe that a government that conducts executions would cheap out and use a simple post rather than the effort and carpentry needed to make a cross. Why bother with the “+”.

    Can’t find anything definitve, of course religious sites are heavily vested in maintaining the cross as a symbol and history has been clouded with their efforts.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 6 points 40 minutes ago (2 children)

    I'm not allowing their age verification BS to run just to see a cross fall on someone.

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