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Originally posted by Aleister
reply to post by Starchild23
Exactly. Pentagrams are a fine shape. Walt Disney made a 30 minute cartoon about them in the 1950s, extolling their funness and mathematical perfection. I bet either the christians or some moviemaker got the negative spin put on the pentagram, and people with fear in them see it and freak. It's a shape, a few lines, of geometric interest, ask Walt Disney!
Our Reality And Our World Is Designed Within The Shapes Of Satanic Pentagrams
Then understand that Venus was a Comet that entered into our solar system.
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
Besides, if aliens did up the solar system and the world, then that makes aliens our god. And if aliens are god, then you might as well go ahead and say that the Devil is Cthulhu and start burning people who use the Necronomicon at the stake.edit on 15-2-2012 by AnIntellectualRedneck because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Aleister
reply to post by blocula
And I don't think evil aliens would put together a space age civilization advanced enough to roam the stars and seed other planets with life. At some point they would have to be good aliens, yes? Do you feel different about good aliens, or are you pessimistic about aliens in general who enjoy geometry?
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Satanic Pentagrams of evil all around us hiding in plain sight...
That abomination is the Lord of this world and its sign is the Pentagram...
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In Christian times: The five points of the pentagram have been interpreted as representing the five wounds of Christ (2 wrist, 2 ankle and 1 side).
1. The Roman Emperor Constantine used the pentagram in his seal and amulet.
2. It has been referred to as the Star of Bethlehem.
3. It was used to symbolize the star which allegedly led three 4. Zoroastrian astrologers (a.k.a. the three wise men) to the baby Jesus; it was called the Three Kings' star.
4. The English warrior Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, adopted the pentagram as his personal symbol and placed it on his shield. 7 It appeared in gold on a red background. The five points symbolized "the five knightly virtues - generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety."
5. Tarot cards originally had a suit of coins or discs. These were changed in the 19th century to pentacles when the Tarot became associated with the Kabbalah. They eventually became the suit of diamonds in modern playing cards.
6. It has been widely used by past Christians as a protective amulet.
7. During the three centuries long burning times, the Christian church burned alive or hung tens of thousands of innocent people accused of Witchcraft, Satan worship or other heresy. The meaning of the pentagram changed. It began to symbolize a goat's head or the devil in the form of Baphomet. "The folk-symbol of security - for the first time in history - was equated with evil and was called the Witch's Foot."
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Many religious liberals view the Wiccan upright pentacle or pentagram as an elegant, spiritual symbol that represents life. They see the Satanic inverted pentacle or Bahomet as primarily representing a self-centered religion.
Fundamentalist and other Evangelical Christians generally have an entirely different view of Wicca, Satanism and other religions. This is influenced by some of their beliefs. In many, but not all cases:
Since they believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, they regard as true those passages which state that the gods and goddesses worshiped by other religions are, in reality, Satan or his demons.
They regard Satan as a living entity, a living, quasi deity who is totally dedicated to destroying people's lives and ruining their faith. They regard themselves as being in continuous "spiritual warfare" -- a personal battle with Satan and his demons.
They regard Satanism as having existed as an organized movement, murdering and performing "black masses" for may centuries. This contrasts with a consensus of modern historians that: "no reliable historical sources indicate that such organizations existed; the black mass appears only once in the sources before the late nineteenth century."
They do not differentiate between Wicca and Satanism. Because they consider the Wiccan gods and goddesses to be Satanic or demonic, they regard the two religions as very similar
They commonly believe that Satanists, (and by extension, Wiccans) engage in Satanic Ritual Abuse and murder. Belief in SRA is gradually diminishing, but remains still at a high level.
Books by conservative Christian authors about Wicca and Satanism are based primarily on books by other Christian authors, rather than on primary religious sources. Some of the ideas put forth in these books as truth can be traced back to 15th century Christian propaganda during the Burning Times.
Many conservative Christians do not differentiate between Wicca and Satanism, or between upright and inverted pentacles/pentagrams. All are viewed as symbols representing evil, violence and lawlessness.
Christians didn’t use the sign of the cross as their religious symbol for many generations after Christ was crucified. Rather than being a Christian symbol of hope and love, it only had the negative association as an execution apparatus for criminals.
Originally posted by blocula
Just as when the planets Venus and Earth are at their closests points while orbiting around the sun also form a "Pentagram" clearly shown here > www.paganspace.net...
Satanic Pentagrams of evil all around us hiding in plain sight...
Then understand that Venus was a Comet that entered into our solar system.Along its way through,the comet Venus violently interacted with the Earth and caused widespread earthquakes and volcanic eruptions,tilted the Earths axis and unleashed the ancient deluge that swept oceans across large parts of the planet...
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The Cross
A tradition of the Church which our fathers have inherited, was the adoption of the words "cross" and "crucify".
These words are nowhere to be found in the Greek of the New Testament. These words are mistranslations, a "later rendering", of the Greek words stauros and stauroo. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says, "STAUROS denotes, primarily, an upright pole or stake ... Both the noun and the verb stauroo, to fasten to a stake or pole, are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two-beamed cross.
The shape of the latter had its origin in ancient Chaldea (Babylon), and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) ... By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith.
In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross piece lowered, was adopted .
Dr. Bullinger, in the Companion Bible, appx. 162, states, "crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian Sun-god ... It should be stated that Constantine was a Sun-god worshipper ... The evidence is thus complete, that the Lord was put to death upon an upright stake, and not on two pieces of timber placed at any angle."