27th December 2004, 4:37 PM
Ya know, once I actually heard the exact thing you said about wearing an electric chair instead of a cross, only it was a priest trying to prove a point at a sermon, with a much sunnier attitude :D. The basic thing was to remind us that the only thing that symbol really represents is what Christ was willing to go through. Then of course you can wax philosophic about how that makes the symbol represent more than the sum of it's part and about how it represents love, or at least the part of love where you are willing to sacrifice stuff...
"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)