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originally posted in:Secular Sevens
11/10/2014 4:04:48 AM
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Tell me he difference between a shrine, an idol, and a crucifix, and not have the word "nothing" in the answer. If you can do this, you are half way there. After that, you have to show me just how much God isn't a hypocrite. If you can do this, you have had a successful conversion.
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a cross was used for torture and people celebrate it because 1 "good" guy died on one. just ignore all the people who died slowly and painfully.
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First shrines tend to be related to ancestral worship, Idols tend to be more polythestic in worship, while the crucifix is a symbol of christs sacrifice, and if there is a God you can't say it's a hypocrit due to the fallibilty of humanity just because someone pledges a cause in God's name doesn't make it true people are easily mislead whether by themselves or by others while some would claim good intention and may very well intended them others simply seek power and control.
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I don't believe, if there is a God, that one person can speak solely for it, yet with in the subtle nature of life in general, if one looks there is a simple response being told. Love one another as equals, work to the best of your abilities, cherish the young because they are the promise of the future and cherish your elders because they are the wisdom of the past.
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The cross is not meant to be an idol. The cross is a message, a symbol of hope to all lost on the Earth. The cross is meant to show you what Jesus did for all people. Dying for sins of all mankind, to break the seal between eternity and mortality. We are not meant to worship the cross, we are meant to come to the cross and surrender our hearts to Jesus. The cross is merely the symbol of hope.
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I am very interested in the hypocrite part of your argument. Also, unfortunately, a great deal of Christian symbolism has become idolatry.
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This is false. Christians do not worship symbols, and they never have.
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Unfortunately, yes, some Christians worship the symbols of Christianity more than God. The symbols become more important than what they represent.
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And what constitutes worshipping a symbol?
