Paganism

[Amy Sweet]

A circle is a potent symbol, but the cross, as the Christians mean it, is just weird. Imagine all those parochial school kids, as Lenny Bruce said, with little golden electric chairs around their necks...

Sounds like some good jewelry for the cult of Charles Manson!

(eek- maybe I shouldn't jest!)

 

[curious2c]

Interesting...the cross I mean. It signifies four points...just as many Pagan religions use in their 'circles'. Also, Pagans had the original cross. Where it comes from originally I'm not sure, but I have seen some very beautiful crosses in my life, ornate and carved with precision.

In the end, what really counts it what one believes and how they follow those belief's. If one is only casual in their practices, then their resulting faith will tend to be just that...casual.

 

[cantdog]

The cross, the equal-armed ones, anyhow, is a very ancient symbol of four from the center. Four powers from the unity of all, a union of positive and negative forces, and so forth. Four directions always seems like a good idea on a spinning spheroid. Nearly universal.

Even today, coincidentally, science recognizes only four forces in Nature. Strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force, gravity. Not what the crosses meant, but cool that there are four.

cantdog