Wearing a crucifix

[Daystar]

I have the same "slight disappointment" when I find out someone has relgious leanings, and very similar feelings when I find out someone is a smoker.

No idea why though because neither has anything to do with my day-to-day dealings with them.

Very interesting.

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I have two crosses- both fashion jewellery. I don't wear them for religious reasons. Would someone wear a trinket fashioned as a gun, to commemorate how someone they lost was killed? I don't think so..........Then again, maybe I shouldn't wear crosses at all seeing as I know how it may be misconstrued........?

Misconstured is the operative word there. On the one hand I would think it silly to refrain from wearing a cross because some atheist have a problem with it without even realizing why. On the other hand other than the fact that the cross has become a fashion symbol with usually no intended meaning behind it, it also has an interesting history.

There are a few words translated as cross, depending upon the language. Hebrew, Greek, or Latin. In the Greek and Latin the word can also be translated as a simple upright pole, but the Hebrew word can only be translated as a pole or tree. So the Bible doesn't teach that Jesus died on a cross, only an upright pole like the Hebrews used.

The Cross didn't become a symbol of Xianity (The X in Xianity comes from the shape of a cross) until Constantine introduced it. The cross is thought to have first been used by the Sumerian deity Tammuz (Dumuzi, a Sumerian King deified post mortem). His initial was the mystic Tau, represented by the "T" shape and the dungy idol mentioned in the Bible that the Israelite women used in false worship, even carving it in the walls of the temple. (Ezekiel 8:1-14)

The Roman cross had a variety of shapes, from a simple pole to a cross shape or X shape. It was a phallic symbol. A representation of the penis worn around the necks of many.