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Originally Posted by maleficent
While crosses now are just nothing more than fashion accessories, but in my mind, they are symbols of a religion, same as a Star of David, if someone who held no religious beliefs wore one, I'm not sure I'd be offended, but if I knew their religiousness, I might ask why they were wearing it.
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Funny you should say that. I attended a function a few weeks back and was in the middle of some nastiness between two people I know.
My friend Julie is Jewish. My friend Carol is Scottish. Carol was wearing a Star of David necklace. I even asked her about it and she just said she liked it. Then it started.
Julie to Carol, " I didn't know you were Jewish?"
Carol replies, " I'm not."
"So why are you wearing the Star of David?"
" I like it."
Julie then rips into Carol about how disrespectful that is to the Jewish culture etc,..and then Carol fires one back.
"If it's so disrespectful for me to wear a Jewish symbol because I like it, why are you wearing a crucifix?"
I almost fell over. Sure enough Julie was wearing, not a cross, but a freakin' crucifix.
Her reply. " I like wearing it. It's not like it means anything. It's an accessory. Everybody wears one."
Well that was the beginning of the end. I exited to the bar.