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Why have Christian crosses become a fashion statement? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by ki4jgt@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just saw a commercial, for ChatGPT Codex, with a young lady wearing a concealed cross.

I'm seeing crosses everywhere, even from people who have no idea what the Christian story actually is.

What gives?

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’m an atheist, and I don’t think his rising from the dead was the important part; it was his sacrificing himself for our collective sins, allowing us to be absolved of them and to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You’re right. The sacrifice and martyrdom is a huge part of being a Christian (which is likely why the cross is used). I’m not sure how I had forgotten that a huge theme among Christians is self sacrifice and Jesus dying for our sins.

But what makes Jesus special, at least from my perspective, wasn’t that he was martyred since others in the Bible were as well. It was the claim he was the son of god offering to save us from damnation, which is validated by the resurrection. Idk I think I just find the cross kind of macabre as a symbol of religion (and as a tool of punishment in general of course). Back when I was a Christian decades ago, I was also anti-cross lol

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s very macabre, as are the symbolic eating of Christ’s body and drinking of his blood. The more you think about it the more goth Christianity becomes.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Saint Peter, of course, being the gothiest of them all being crucified on an inverted cross.

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