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Originally Posted by CC1
NI,
I trust you don't use a calendar or acknowledge the days of the week since they most certainly have pagan origins.
If you refuse to associate or use anything that at some point in time as been used by pagans you are just conceding those things to them. Why not just claim them for Lord?
Do you have specific, verified documentation that the fish symbol is evil? You yourself conceded that for hundreds, possibly over a thousand years, it has been a symbol meaning Christian. Does the fact that at some points pagans may have used a similar symbol for something negate all of that history?
You are truly swallowing a gnat.
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Actually, the meaning has never changed. It still represents pagan belief. If this is a "gnat", then I don't want it.
Further, it is IMO a catholic myth that early christians used this symbol as a sign. At that time, it was well known to represent paganism for paganism was more prevelent then than now, though it is on the rise again.
I find it difficult to believe that one God christians would use a polytheistic symbol to represent themselves one towards another.
Having studied various cults in great deal, I can see how history has possibly been bent to permit the current dogma to be considered christian.
NI