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Inverted Cross
#31
RE: Inverted Cross
(September 26, 2011 at 1:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: You mean this goat Welsh? Funny story, it's actually a pagan god that christians made up.
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I thought Pan, the often-demonised god of nature, was originally belonging to Greek religion and mythology, not Pagan traditions correct?

Got to give praise where its due. For recognising the faun/satyr 'Pan' never represented Satanism and including his own 'take on the deity' with the character 'Tumnus' into the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis was smarter than the average Christian. Although that's probably not saying much.

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#32
RE: Inverted Cross
Nah, the idea of Satan as a goat, or a representation of him as such wasn't a part of early christian dogma. We had a discussion about this awhile back. The devil as we see him now is a product of Medieval European culture. To an early christian the statement "You are offering your soul to satan" would be more accurately translated as "You are offering your soul to nothing". They didn't have any developed sort of idea about satan, or even hell that we would recognize as such today. Pan would be a pagan god, by any reckoning of the word btw.

"Pan's goatish image recalls conventional faun-like depictions of Satan. Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism. Medieval and early modern images of Satan tend, by contrast, to show generic semi-human monsters with horns, wings and clawed feet."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)

(I love this stuff so much..lol)

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#33
RE: Inverted Cross
NOOOOO! Don't do this. The Pope has an upside down cross on his throne. It means the opposite of what you think.
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