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Originally Posted by SisterofJared
The cross has been a symbol of Christianity long before the Ku Klux Klan existed.
I see no reason for any Christian group to give it up. Rather than let it stand for the KKK, they should use it so much that the image is planted in everyone's mind as a Christian symbol.
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I never said any Christian group should give up the cross. I never said anyone should give up the cross.
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When I visited San Francisco, I brought home t shirts for everyone. They had the golden gate bridge on them and said, "San Francisco." >snip< My question is why have we given it to them?
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Oh please. Can we stop beating up on the gays?
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As good friend has the middle name of Gaye. She is 58 years old, and today is careful not to reveal her middle name. What once stood for happy and delighted has been surrendered to mean homosexual or lesbian. Why??
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What does this even mean?
The KKK burning the cross in front of a black family's house while it rapes and murders them is the equivalent to your friend’s inability to reveal her middle name? Is she going to be tortured or lynched for it? Does she spend her life in terror that someone is going to kill her because of her name?
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When something stands for something good, we should not surrender the meaning away to something else. Many black churches use the symbol of the cross and IMO, they should continue to do so, and help restore the former significance, and discredit any other claim to it.
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…sigh…
I never said any church whatsoever should give up the cross, and it's a bit obtuse to assume I did.
I am referring to this
lighted cross only. I am saying the AFA should not sell it because it is an image that could, for many people, represent unspeakable acts, not faith. Obviously that's what I saw, and I am not alone.
Additionally, it is not an image anyone gave up to them, them” being the KKK and other white supremacist groups.
To compare a
burning cross to a regular cross is to be ignorant of its history. It is an image of vile hatred and atrocities, not Christianity.
It is the atrocities that insist the image of a
burning cross is obscene.
Elphaba