The Scientology Cross

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Why did they choose such an obvious appropriation as their symbol? I realize that the Christian Cross is not itself an "origninal" symbol, but it has represented our faith long enough to have gained a certain legitimacy, It think. tI's like what the Nazi Germany did to the Hindu Swastika. Just how wrong or right is it, this appropriation of ancient symbols by relatively new movements? Comapred to Hinduism, probably the world's oldest religion, how much legitimacy does the Nazi movement actually have?

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Scientology Cross


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Christian Cross

Scientology has no legitimacy of its own, so they must instead appropriate the legitimacy of others - even if it is the Christian church.

Why are Christians reviled?

That's the way of things, I think. Who decides what a symbol means and for how long it retains that meaning? Society does. Human beings collectively. If a good-luck symbol can be bastardized into an emblem of hate, there's nothing that can't be changed into anytihng else, as far as symbols go.

Symbols sure are neat!

The Scientology Cross comes from the writings of Aleister Crowley, the early 20th century occultist, whose theories greatly interested L. Ron Hubbard. Crowley put an "x" over the cross to indicate a negation of the cross, ie Satan. Sometimes it's called a "crossed out cross", and in Crowley's writings it had about the same meaning as an upside down cross. It's less obvious though. So basically Miscavige is admitting that Scientology is a church of Satan. A fascination with Satan was a common thread throughout Hubbard's life, sometimes he worshipped Satan, sometimes he thought he WAS Satan. In the original Operating Thetan Level 8, Hubbard calls himself the Antichrist, not by name but in so many words. In Hubbard's upside down theories, the antichrist is the actual savior of mankind, and defeats Jesus, who is an evil alien. It's all quite weird.

I have seen many people wearing the $cientology cross who weren't $cientologist. I think that L Ron was just too lame to make an original symbol for his cult.

Meh ... it's all the same.

One religion calls its devil "Satan" and his minions "Demons", while another called their devil "Xenu" and his minions "Thetans."

One uses exorcism to remove these demons, while another uses auditing to remove theirs.

One takes money in regular collections, while the other takes money in easy installments.

I mean ... religion is religion is religion ... et cetera, ad nauseum ...