The absurdity of the Christian cross.
The Christian cross is so stupid. First of all, yeah: let's completely ignore Jesus's message and focus entirely on his grisly torturous death, so much that we make the symbol for the religion into the instrument of that death. Yeah, if Jesus ever came back, I'm sure he'd be THRILLED with that. *sarcastic double thumbs-up* That'd be like if Buddhism used a piece of pork as the symbol of their religion, seeing as Buddha died choking on pork.
Secondly, the Romans NEVER used an unequal-armed cross for crucifixions. The Romans had a long history of crucifying criminals, they were fucking obsessed with crucifixion, and not once in hundreds of years did they EVER use nails or an unequal-armed cross. They used EQUAL-ARMED crosses and ROPE. There is no other way to do it; nail someone to a cross by the hands, and their hands will just rip in half because they can't support the weight. Same for feet. And if you tried nailing someone by the wrist, they would die very fast, as it would be like slitting one's wrists. The WHOLE POINT of crucifixion was that it would take days of starvation and exposure to the elements before you finally died. So not only is it like using, say, a hypodermic needle full of poison to symbolize your religion, it'd be like if the symbol made mistakes like the plunger being stuck, and in the story they injected the poison into his pinky toe or some other idiocy.
Then there are the people like St. Peter (who is the origin of the inverted unequal-armed cross as a symbol of Christianity [NOT Satanism] ) because he didn't feel worthy to commit holy suicide (which is what his martyrdom was) the same way Jesus did. This is simply absurd. Not only did he have the wrong details of how crucifixion is done to begin with, but then he doesn't feel worthy to die the same way that not only Jesus but hundreds, probably thousands, of people died before him and - likely - after him as well? That's like... if your prophet died from a bullet fired from a rifle, and you thought that a trebuchet was a rifle, so you thought being hit by a "bullet" (stone) fired from this "rifle" (trebuchet) was something hoity-toity and you were not worthy to die that way, and so instead you turned the trebuchet upside down and Wile E. Coyoted your way to martyrdom by being hit by the body of the trebuchet instead of the bullet. THAT IS WHAT SAINT PETER'S BULLSHIT HOLY SUICIDE WAS LIKE.
Saint Peter's death was so absurd that maybe that's why it was largely forgotten; people were like "What a moron" and tried to forget it had happened. Though that still doesn't explain how the Saint Peter's cross supposedly became a Satanic symbol. Sadly, the reason it persist is because morons keep spreading the idea around, and even bigger morons keep actually USING the Saint Peter's cross as a Satanic symbol despite the fact that LaVey came up with a much better one.
Oh, and did you know that the five-pointed star was once a Christian symbol, too? It was pre-Christian as well, just as the cross was, but still... I would like to know how a second Christian symbol became, somehow, a Satanic one.
By the way, if you're simply ignorant of what the Satanic cross looks like, go to these links:
http://burningonyx.tumblr.com/post/35332235548/burningonyx-of-course-the-cross-is-older-than
http://burningonyx.tumblr.com/post/35902489468/why-do-i-have-to-keep-telling-people-that-this
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You can comment either here or there.
Secondly, the Romans NEVER used an unequal-armed cross for crucifixions. The Romans had a long history of crucifying criminals, they were fucking obsessed with crucifixion, and not once in hundreds of years did they EVER use nails or an unequal-armed cross. They used EQUAL-ARMED crosses and ROPE. There is no other way to do it; nail someone to a cross by the hands, and their hands will just rip in half because they can't support the weight. Same for feet. And if you tried nailing someone by the wrist, they would die very fast, as it would be like slitting one's wrists. The WHOLE POINT of crucifixion was that it would take days of starvation and exposure to the elements before you finally died. So not only is it like using, say, a hypodermic needle full of poison to symbolize your religion, it'd be like if the symbol made mistakes like the plunger being stuck, and in the story they injected the poison into his pinky toe or some other idiocy.
Then there are the people like St. Peter (who is the origin of the inverted unequal-armed cross as a symbol of Christianity [NOT Satanism] ) because he didn't feel worthy to commit holy suicide (which is what his martyrdom was) the same way Jesus did. This is simply absurd. Not only did he have the wrong details of how crucifixion is done to begin with, but then he doesn't feel worthy to die the same way that not only Jesus but hundreds, probably thousands, of people died before him and - likely - after him as well? That's like... if your prophet died from a bullet fired from a rifle, and you thought that a trebuchet was a rifle, so you thought being hit by a "bullet" (stone) fired from this "rifle" (trebuchet) was something hoity-toity and you were not worthy to die that way, and so instead you turned the trebuchet upside down and Wile E. Coyoted your way to martyrdom by being hit by the body of the trebuchet instead of the bullet. THAT IS WHAT SAINT PETER'S BULLSHIT HOLY SUICIDE WAS LIKE.
Saint Peter's death was so absurd that maybe that's why it was largely forgotten; people were like "What a moron" and tried to forget it had happened. Though that still doesn't explain how the Saint Peter's cross supposedly became a Satanic symbol. Sadly, the reason it persist is because morons keep spreading the idea around, and even bigger morons keep actually USING the Saint Peter's cross as a Satanic symbol despite the fact that LaVey came up with a much better one.
Oh, and did you know that the five-pointed star was once a Christian symbol, too? It was pre-Christian as well, just as the cross was, but still... I would like to know how a second Christian symbol became, somehow, a Satanic one.
By the way, if you're simply ignorant of what the Satanic cross looks like, go to these links:
http://burningonyx.tumblr.com/post/35332235548/burningonyx-of-course-the-cross-is-older-than
http://burningonyx.tumblr.com/post/35902489468/why-do-i-have-to-keep-telling-people-that-this
This was cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/223385.html
You can comment either here or there.