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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on June 26, 2010 at 12:34am

In order to get the cross to seem correct, I'd think you'd have to have to go a little lower...
Kind of like this "In the name of the Father (touch forhead), the Son (touch your 'naughty bits'), and the Holy Spirit (Shoulders)."

Come to think of it, even motioning your hand toward your genitalia while saying the word 'son' seems kind of like subliminal messaging. Maybe it's the years and years and years of said messaging that causes priests to want to touch their parishoner's sons...

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Permalink Reply by Silenus on June 26, 2010 at 8:18am

The inverted cross is a catholic symbol, it is called the cross of saint peter, he was crucified upside down because he thought he was unworthy to be crucified the way yeshu was.

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Permalink Reply by Radu Andreiu on June 27, 2010 at 4:53am

Well, shouldn't the cross be about Jesus?

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Permalink Reply by elaine kilshaw on June 27, 2010 at 1:14pm

Oh dear you will offend the religious. Yet they seem to like to wear a symbol of their faith of a man being crusified horribly on a cross, whereas the photo I carry with me is of my father when he was alive and well, not of when he was deceased.
It seems sick to me to show a man suffering and saying this is perfectly ok.and if I get negative remarks when I wear my atheist broach this is the argument I will give.e

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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on June 27, 2010 at 11:55pm

Ahh, ok. I didn't realize it was a catholic symbol. Thank you doone and Forrest, I stand corrected. I thought it was some kind of pagan symbol of some sort that Christians weren't too fond of. I may have just seen the 'Pet Semetary' movies a few too many times....

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