It's all just so weird.

Chances are it was an 'X' shape not a 't' shape. At the time of Jesus' death, the ground was rock and sand -- it takes a lot of effort to dig a post hole in that. It's simpler to use an 'X' with a prop to support it. That's why the soldiers were present, As to the graven image -- all religions have them -- it is a badge to identify like members of the cult. I always thought the Commandment about 'thou shalt have any graven image before...". It was a failed attempt at having religion be personal not public. (look up 'to grave' in the dictionary)

I just thought it was so you could hype shredded foam pillows on TEE VEE ?

Never thought about it......thank you for the introduction to a new way of thinking.....

Yes, that's what they would wear...kinda like people who wear team jerseys with logos...it's all about identifying as a member of the team

It was a horrible form of torture and public execution imposed on even petty crimes for hundreds of years.

Keep the Vampires away. That would be the only reason.

In Christianism there are 2 kinds of cross.
The one with Jesus and the one without.
The one populated is like you describe, to remember the suffering and teach that the world will fight back against their religion and suffering will happen.
The empty one is to show that Jesus beat death, that he was able to resurrect.

The empty one is a nice symbol, represents a nice history of good beating evil. The populated one is from a religion based on masochism and conformism that people need to suffer to have the eternal good life.

And I am talking about the symbols, not the religion.

If Jesus was impaled, the Christians, instead of making cross signs, they would put a finger up their asses!

I always wondered, if he was killed by guillotine would people wear a guillotine on a chain, or hang one over the bed?

Good point. Personally I dislike symbols. I never allowed my kids to wear cartoon characters or anything like that. Maybe I'm weird but I find all that very distasteful.