Do you have to be a Christian to wear a cross necklace?

[almaty 19]

the lady, you described sister fracas is a chopf##k....and a azzhat

[Saddle Bronc 124]

You could also wear a necklace with the swastika symbol and not be a nazi, but I doubt many people would.

Actually:

Swastik's origin is from India, where it was/is considered auspicious (many Hindus actually use these as part of kolam patterns on their doorsteps, and some actually do wear swastik pendants).

You may want to rent the movie Dho Chor.

[PlatyPius 5]

You could also wear a necklace with the swastika symbol and not be a nazi, but I doubt many people would.

Actually:

Swastik's origin is from India, where it was/is considered auspicious (many Hindus actually use these as part of kolam patterns on their doorsteps, and some actually do wear swastik pendants).

You may want to rent the movie Dho Chor.

You beat me to it. lol

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You could also wear a necklace with the swastika symbol and not be a nazi, but I doubt many people would.

Actually:

Swastik's origin is from India, where it was/is considered auspicious (many Hindus actually use these as part of kolam patterns on their doorsteps, and some actually do wear swastik pendants).

You may want to rent the movie Dho Chor.

Same with the cross - predates Christianity, however, the point is the historical reference that today's society associates with those two symbols...makes people nowadays less likely to wear either one in public unless they do in fact represent what most people associate them with. I'm all for people wearing whatever jewelry they want...but they can't be upset if people take it to mean something different from their own personal reasons.

[jundp 191]

The cross as a religious icon pre-dates Christianity, so why not?

I don't think you have to believe in the symbol to wear it, but you should actually know what it stands for.

Absolutely.

I am Christian but I don't have a problem with someone wearing a cross if they so choose. I would, I think, be bothered by someone wearing a crucifix who was openly anti-Christian, however, but that's just me.

I also own a shirt with the ohm symbol on it, but unlike Sister Fracas's colleague...I do know what it stands for

I agree, she's a chopf###

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Correction for Sister Fracas et al (ya, I'm being a technical chopf#ck here).

An "ohm symbol" means an inverted horseshoe or capital omega--for the unit of electrical resistance/impedance (look on the back of any stereo speakers you have). A little hard for me to comprehend what resistance/impedance has to do with religion--

You must have meant "om symbol".

[kjw 0]

The're so many religion that they called christian too. But for me christian is not a religion but christian is a relationship between Human and God.

About the Cross signs made by human, for me is nothing coz God knows ur heart if u accept and believe Him or not. Jesus Christ is alive since he rose again from the dead! He is not in the cross anymore! But seating on the throne right hand of the Father in heaven. Since Jesus Christ rose again, He left his Holy Spirit upon us.

Some people wearing a cross sign becoz of the fashion.

[PlatyPius 5]

You could also wear a necklace with the swastika symbol and not be a nazi, but I doubt many people would.

Actually:

Swastik's origin is from India, where it was/is considered auspicious (many Hindus actually use these as part of kolam patterns on their doorsteps, and some actually do wear swastik pendants).

You may want to rent the movie Dho Chor.

Same with the cross - predates Christianity, however, the point is the historical reference that today's society associates with those two symbols...makes people nowadays less likely to wear either one in public unless they do in fact represent what most people associate them with. I'm all for people wearing whatever jewelry they want...but they can't be upset if people take it to mean something different from their own personal reasons.

Can you be upset if you're a Wiccan and your "symbol" is the pentagram/pentacle (which it is) and everyone accuses you of being a Satanist? (which they do)

[✿Ice Rain✿ 0]

NO. Coz in my opinion, A "cross symbol" nowadays is treated only a "shapes", just like circle, triangle, oblong, rectangle , etc.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

This woman at work was wearing an Ohm t-shirt one day and when I said, oh, nice shirt, she said she didn't know what it was but thought it "looked nice". When I told her it was a meditation symbol of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, she FREAKED, said oooh, those are the "baddies", right? BADDIES! Good grief. And I just had to think, sheesh, here is someone who not only thinks of people of certain religions as baddies, but she didn't know that she was walking around with the symbol of the baddies huge as life across her chest!!!!

And she never even noticed, and still hasn't, the Ohm ornament I keep hanging on my computer!

I don't think you have to believe in the symbol to wear it, but you should actually know what it stands for.

baddies!

I wonder if the people that wear a cross without being christian/catholic would mind someone mistaking them for a catholic/ christian.

btw, I thought christians did not wear crosses? that it's more of a catholic thing?

Saludos,

Caro

[bora bora 1]

This woman at work was wearing an Ohm t-shirt one day and when I said, oh, nice shirt, she said she didn't know what it was but thought it "looked nice". When I told her it was a meditation symbol of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, she FREAKED, said oooh, those are the "baddies", right? BADDIES! Good grief. And I just had to think, sheesh, here is someone who not only thinks of people of certain religions as baddies, but she didn't know that she was walking around with the symbol of the baddies huge as life across her chest!!!!

And she never even noticed, and still hasn't, the Ohm ornament I keep hanging on my computer!

I don't think you have to believe in the symbol to wear it, but you should actually know what it stands for.

baddies!

I wonder if the people that wear a cross without being christian/catholic would mind someone mistaking them for a catholic/ christian.

btw, I thought christians did not wear crosses? that it's more of a catholic thing?

Saludos,

Caro

Christians wear them too.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

This woman at work was wearing an Ohm t-shirt one day and when I said, oh, nice shirt, she said she didn't know what it was but thought it "looked nice". When I told her it was a meditation symbol of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, she FREAKED, said oooh, those are the "baddies", right? BADDIES! Good grief. And I just had to think, sheesh, here is someone who not only thinks of people of certain religions as baddies, but she didn't know that she was walking around with the symbol of the baddies huge as life across her chest!!!!

And she never even noticed, and still hasn't, the Ohm ornament I keep hanging on my computer!

I don't think you have to believe in the symbol to wear it, but you should actually know what it stands for.

baddies!

I wonder if the people that wear a cross without being christian/catholic would mind someone mistaking them for a catholic/ christian.

btw, I thought christians did not wear crosses? that it's more of a catholic thing?

Saludos,

Caro

Christians wear them too.

mmm interesting. I had a christian question me once in wearing a cross because "it's a symbol" and "Christ is alive and not in the cross" . Maybe different christian churches feel differently about it?

Saludos,

Caro

[Jack and Barbara 0]

anyone can wear whatever they want and not believe in it, right?

I, personally, wear

[Scott & Lai 12]

This woman at work was wearing an Ohm t-shirt one day and when I said, oh, nice shirt, she said she didn't know what it was but thought it "looked nice". When I told her it was a meditation symbol of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, she FREAKED, said oooh, those are the "baddies", right? BADDIES! Good grief. And I just had to think, sheesh, here is someone who not only thinks of people of certain religions as baddies, but she didn't know that she was walking around with the symbol of the baddies huge as life across her chest!!!!

And she never even noticed, and still hasn't, the Ohm ornament I keep hanging on my computer!

I don't think you have to believe in the symbol to wear it, but you should actually know what it stands for.

baddies!

I wonder if the people that wear a cross without being christian/catholic would mind someone mistaking them for a catholic/ christian.

btw, I thought christians did not wear crosses? that it's more of a catholic thing?

Saludos,

Caro

First, Catholics are Christians, they believe in the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, his death on the cross, and his resurrection and ascension. Catholicism is not a separate religion.

Second, many Christians, not just Catholics, do wear crosses and even crucifixes. I'm not Catholic, I'm Lutheran, but I wear a crucifix all the time. A crucifix is not a "Catholic" symbol, it is a Christian symbol. And sure, as was pointed out, Christ isn't still on the cross, but his death on the cross is what saves us, which is the point of the symbol.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Why couldn´t people wear it? Why do so many non-Christians celebrate Xmas, Easter, etc?