6th December 2003, 12:52 PM
Darunia, your hatred of religion seems to have sprouted some odd ideas.
Of course Christians didn't invent it. Romans did and it was an instrument of torture. I even said as much. Christians just turned it into a symbol of salvation, and that's what it's known as world wide. If the Red Cross was to completely remove all symbols of Christ from their organization in England, they'd HAVE to change their name because let's face it, cross means Jesus now. They'd have to go back to what it USED to represent or just come up with a new meaning. However, if they did that, what's the point of removing the other symbols in the first place? I mean, a Christmas tree isn't a sacred symbol of Christianity like a cross, it's just KINDA a symbol, and yet THAT'S getting ditched.
Of course Christians didn't invent it. Romans did and it was an instrument of torture. I even said as much. Christians just turned it into a symbol of salvation, and that's what it's known as world wide. If the Red Cross was to completely remove all symbols of Christ from their organization in England, they'd HAVE to change their name because let's face it, cross means Jesus now. They'd have to go back to what it USED to represent or just come up with a new meaning. However, if they did that, what's the point of removing the other symbols in the first place? I mean, a Christmas tree isn't a sacred symbol of Christianity like a cross, it's just KINDA a symbol, and yet THAT'S getting ditched.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)