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gunsmoker

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4. Symbol of Death

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 01:02 AM

Jan 2019

Quote: “Sure, it originally came from Christianity but it seems to me it's moved beyond that over the years to have a generic meaning of death as well.”

Yep. Consider all the people who put a cross-shaped grave marker over their PETS buried in the back yard.

93 years ago, I don’t think everyone in that town would have agreed that only Christians died fighting the Great War. Even then, the cross was a symbol of death regardless of the faith of the fallen.

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