Does it bother you to see a cross with Jesus on it?
921762
i think it really bothers Jesus,  to be constantly reminded   of one of the most horrible moments in his life.every year we celebrate his death, like a bunch of sick-o ghouls,, and worship his suffering--makes me sick to my stomach.\n\nhe not on the cross any more , and we  as a culture should stop torturing him.\n\nwe should love him as a fellow human being.\n\nand see him happy, healthy, and alive, living his own life--out there some were.
1148960
I think most of us tend to react negatively to that flag as well as to  many other symbolic things that we have come to associate with  bad things like a burning cross , a Nazi  symbol...etc.... and no matter how they defend using it   ( some say its just honoring their dead confederate soldiers etc.) you just can't help but feel that person  wishes the south had won and they wish it will rise again...so yep.... its still scary!
6799
Thinking of the Bill Hicks stand up, that the last thing Jesus would want to see would be a cross... when they start wearing fishes then I'll come back :o)\nGotta be Buddy Christ... \nSo it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the "Catholicism WOW. " campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you... The Buddy Christ. Now that's not the sanctioned term we're using for the symbol, just something we've been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn't it... pop? Buddy Christ...
718098
LOL..good question.. I'd bet you could crap on a sheet and spread it around to look like Jesus, you'd find a bunch of crazy people to believe it's a sign.
1013420
i have never understood the obsession with crosses...if Jesus IS coming back, i would think that would be the LAST thing he would want to see...
164475
I don't think it matters.  Of course, if you look at the Eastern liturgies, the priest faces East (most of the time).  The Western Church did this as well, but was less caught up in the symbolism.  In fact, I think it chose to discard the symbol largely because it was no longer functioning in the same way in the West.
1112551
It does not bother me either way.   Some christians and other theists turn atheist, so it's only "fair" that some atheists turn theist.  :-)   It happens.\n\nPlus, it's their lives.  I don't want to judge them on their choices, even if I might disagree.  Only thing I ask is....will their choice(s) make them a better person than they were before?  If so, I am all for it.
741337
I find tolerance from Christians - just as I "tolerate" you putting down those that you admit are like you. I have tattoos and piercings. I know that some people are sooo sheltered that they are shocked to see piercings. It gets people curious sometimes as to - didn't that hurt?!?!?!?! WHY would you hurt yourself... they don't see the purpose. So what? I enjoy the art that I have on my body. I do think that there is some Biblical teaching regarding tatoos and I think that there are some people that have a concern about tattoo'd and pierced people being rude or crude to them in front of their "impressionable" children and they have a right and responsibility to protect innocent children. A few give many others a bad reputation. I was in the military and I knew very few men that were unfaithful to their wives, and yet many military men have a reputation for their infidelity. Is it fair? no. Life sometimes isn't. Even Jesus stopped the religious of His time from harming a "bad example" "law-(especially of their time)-breaking prostitute by challanging the one without sin to cast the first stone when they were not just judging her but going to the truly extreme of going to kill her as punishment. God doesn't judge you by your hair color. God has counted every hair on your head. God will judge your heart. And God will also judge their hearts and perhaps God will find that they have falsely and wrongly shunned you/looked at you disgustingly/maybe even gossiped about you... if you chose to look how you want than accept that you chose to be outside the norm. Are you trying to get shock from them? One thing I've done is go to church on a Saturday night in a tye dye shirt, gottee, and baseball cap and had been working during the day and I've gone Sunday morning wearing a suit and tie and clean shaven. People don't recognize me. Try something similar.... get your hair a natural brown and dress up in a nice dress and then change your hair and wear leather and piercings...whatever you want. Did you (your mind and your soul/emotions change just because your clothing did? no, certainly not. We aren't saved by our outward appearances. One of my all time favorite chapters in the Bible is James 1. The relevent information that he says is at the end of the chapter and in to the second chapter. It basically says that if you favor someone because of the way they are dressed even by offering them the best seat and having the poor man sit on the floor that it is wrong! It goes on to talk about it more so check it out. Be a positive alternative example to people that wouldn't know any better. Perhaps God will you use in powerful ways to soften hearts to help the poor and needy as you say that you are voluntarily doing. At the end of James 1 it says something like that is called a pure religion to look after orphans and widows in their distress AND (emphasis mine) to keep control of your tongue. (Please do not be so quick to judge others yourself either) They will not know how to help you unless you are open and real about what your needs (emotional acceptance) are...God is love and we are to love one another as Christ did for us.
419010
why should i care if this jesus died on the cross?
1078298
The cross is not an appropriate symbol for christianity. This is not in any way devaluing what happenned on the cross, it's just that Jesus didn't stay on the cross. The romans put him in a grave, but He got up!\n\nToo many people are stuck at the cross of repentance, when there is a resurrection and new life awaiting them.
396635
Does it interfere with your love of God?\n\nDoes it interfere with love for your fellow humans?
657045
I have a tattoo that some might see as religious, but I'm not sure if that counts. I also have a few crosses that I wear (one at a time). My favorite is a necklace of a butterfly with a cross in the center. I am a Christain and in love with Christ, however I'm not religious. Not sure if that answers your question or not.
1132014
No where in the Bible does it mention Christ being hung on a cross.  The scriptures refer to it as a stake.  As well, in the Ten Commandments as well as numerous other scriptures, we are directed not to use items of veneration or idols in our worship of God.  Therefore, the cross, being an idol, would not be used in worship.  As well, if Christ was hung on a cross, would it be right to worship the item used to put him to death?
663955
Does anyone else find Christianity a little disturbing?
193992
Yes!  Finally!\n\nWe should not worship the messiah, but God himself.  To worship the image of a man dieing on the cross is not only to ignore all the good that the man did in his life before dieing, but also to ignore God entirely.\n\nWe should worship God, the almighty, everlasting, everloving creator.
415599
I want to wear a small Bodem around my neck. Coffee is my religion.\nI could care less about religious symbols and whether or not people wear them.\nJust keep those cross's off my lawn.
371731
I'm a Christian, and I have a cross tattoo. I say go for it. My tattoos say who I am, and what I love. I love Jesus.\nGo for it!