#277121 - 10/14/07 03:35 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: Black_Core]
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That's entirely up to you. If there's some kind of aesthetic value, some sort of nostalgic affect, then I'd say keep it around, what can it hurt? But you're the one that has to decide whether or not you want symbols you don't agree with hanging on your walls. All of that aside, however, I promise that you won't spontaneously combust for keeping it around. There's no Satanic 'cross police' itching to come bursting into your home to take it down and bring you up on charges of apostasy.
Edited by Poetaster (10/14/07 03:36 PM)
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#277133 - 10/14/07 05:21 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: Black_Core]
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It's very important to do things sober that you think of doing when you're drunk.
It shows that you have good follow-through.
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#277149 - 10/14/07 07:36 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: Evil Jack]
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If the cross it self has sentimental or aesthetic value then by all means leave it up.
If it bothers you that it is a xtian artifact then simply invert it and you get to keep the sentimental value and remove the xtian symbolism behind it.
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#277180 - 10/14/07 09:52 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: Evil Jack]
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You have replied to the wrong person. I certainly didn't convert to Satanism and I have never been a Christian.
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#277181 - 10/14/07 10:10 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: RandomStranger]
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No, leave it where it is. You know why it is still there.
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#277190 - 10/14/07 10:52 PM
Re: My cross
[Re: Black_Core]
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Registered: 11/27/02
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There is a cross hanging in my room too. It has a sentimental value for my wife, because it was the crucifix her grandmother wore when she was buried, or something like that.
It doesn't bother me. I can say I practically don't see it at all. My wife also have several figurines of other mythological figures like Buddha and Capt. Kirk.
On my side, I have Osiris, Anubis, several nameless Egyptian ushabties, Cthulhu and a Hellraiser puzzle cube and a candle shaped as a gargoyle. So our room is full of religious icons, but we don't look at them as worship objects, but just decoration.
In your case, if that object has a sentimental value, why not keep it? It can't harm you in any way.
But if you feel bothered by it, just take it off the wall and put it in a drawer.
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#277226 - 10/15/07 07:45 AM
Re: My cross
[Re: LKRice]
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Registered: 10/02/07
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Loc: Gierle - Belgium
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Why do you think we would care? I was simply asking for everyone's opinion, I wasn't asking to care. Well it's supposed to represent the death of Jesus or something along the line. not really, the cross is more than that to christians. It's supposed to be standing on a mountain of the death and therefor stating that Jesus stands above that. If you were such a "good" xtian, why did you convert to Satanism? I never said I was a good christian. I think I stated in my introduction why I became a Satanist, if I remember correctly. to everyone else: I don't think it has any sentimental value to me but giving the fact it's still there, maybe subconcious it has. thanx for your thoughts.
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