Originally posted by catnapper
I don't know when or why the Catholic/Christian faith decided to turn the image of the cross into an icon, as for hundreds of years, people viewed the image of a cross as a horror - the way we'd think about the electric chair... will people be walking around with little gold chairs in two thousand years? (Ok, so electric chair isn't the perfect similie, but you get the point.)
Not to turn this into a slam against religion....


The local talk show tossed that around.
What if Jesus had been run over by a cart? or was hung?
Drown or ????

Something about suffering and catholocism that people can't separate..