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I was face painting at a church last night (didn't burn up in there, lol) and this girl asked for a design element that we had to decipher. She kept explaining different parts of it and even tried to draw it out... turned out to be a cross. She was at a church and didn't know how what the name of a cross was. (She was about 10 years old)

I'd say that church is doing a super rad job with the Jesus thing 😉

pepperjones 8 Sep 9
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I can picture it painted on a kid's face now: a cross, and below it these words in quotation marks, "Hey Judas, I can see your house from up here!"

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Years ago, to appease then wife, we took our daughter to a Holloween church thing. One of the crafts was to make a bracelet with different colored beads representing certain characteristics. The idea was to use at least one black bead to represent sin, since were all sinners.

I asked if I could make one with all black beads. I don't think the woman saw the humor in that like I did. ?

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For the longest time my son thought a Cross was a T. I was so proud of him. But then society hit him with religious crap

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To busy raping kids, too busy telling them to hate thy neighbor, telling them to give them all their money.

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maybe it was her first time at a church.

at the age of 10 i had never been to one.

now i am wondering, what WAS my first visit? probably to a friend's wedding. we were all 21 or so. he was catholic. the priest wore tennis shoes under his robes. i was impressed by that, but not by anything else, although i was happy for my friend, as he seemed truly in love, and so did his bride, who was also my friend. he and i lost touch for a few decades and then we found each other on facebook a few years ago. (i could not find his wife's name on his friend's list.) he found out i was pro-choice, though, and said he couldn't be my friend anymore, and dropped me. he is no longer a catholic. he has become a born-again christian. i was ready to overlook that and still be his friend for old times' sake. i think he's a smart and kind person. however, even if he thinks i am a smart and kind person, our friendship became impossible for him, not because i HAD an abortion (which i never did, since i've never been pregnant) or because i WOULD have an abortion (i have no idea, since i've never been pregnant) but simply because i believe in letting other women make choices for themselves. to me that is very weird. i am still sad about his dropping me, but i've already veered way off course here. even just trying to remember the first time i set foot inside a church was a digression; now i have digressed from my digression.

anyway, if she was in a church for the first time at age 10, she has had the experience half a lifetime sooner than i did! maybe she isn't christian. i never have been. it's not impossible.

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@pepperjones lol i wasn't playing devil's advocate! to me it was quite possible it was her first time in a church. i did not have the information you hadn't shared, after all. now that i do, i have no other possible explanation.

as for my friend... it was not time that tested us. it was religion: his, to be exact.

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Thats pretty Awesome

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so she came a cross as naive? wink!

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Did you paint it on her upside down?

@pepperjones you're so sweet! I'm sour and bitter, but I have no artistic talent, so I can't paint subversive things on children's faces. Damn!

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Just a thought: the supposed cross wasn't sword shaped -- that may have come from knights praying. Think about digging a hole in the hard rock or sand to support the cross typically imaged. Now image an X shape with a support piece propping the X up. Much simpler, just as effective -- no digging.

But then they've gotta spring for that extra nail. I think the official theory is when they noticed they only had 3 left they said "um, jesus, would you mind crossing your legs?"

Youre right though most crucifixions took place on an X, relatively few were on the vertical cross. Despite going to christian school they did teach us a lot of legit historical tidbits like that too.

I think there was also a biological reason why they nailed the feet together for the most painful punishment. They didn't bleed out or anything they suffocated. With all the weight hung on the wrist bones you have to push up from the nail in your feet in order to have any room for your diaphragm to draw breath in. So eventually after torturous hours of struggling for breath you lose the strength to be able to try again. I'm not sure if being in an X shape would make this any easier but it might give a slight advantage that you could push up with one leg at a time to take your breath or it might kill you or make you pass out mercifully faster. I could be making this up but I think that was the supposed reason that a vertical cross is the worst death

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There's an old joke about a kid who was bad at maths being sent to a Catholic school. He immediately improved. When asked why he was doing so well, he whispered "I don't want them nailing me to a plus sign, like that other guy" smile009.gif

Ozman Level 7 Sep 9, 2018
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Are you talking about that lowercase T thing?

This one?

@metalicious1986 Yeah, but sometimes they have like an elf, or dwarf nailed to it.

@indirect76 raises one eyebrow

@metalicious1986 That's not wrong. I don't know why Christians don't realize that they're in a death cult. They literally use the torture instrument of their prophet as their icon.

Just imagine if Jesus had been hanged--all of the Xtians would have to have little nooses! Or drawn and quartered instead!

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Ida given her a telephone pole just to be a smartass lol.

With the old glass insulators

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Lucky you didn't paint a pentagram on her face using her description.

That would have been epic!

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